Re: Hashes,File protection,etc

From: Jose Nazario (joseat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 07:06:56 PDT

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    On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Tony wrote:
    
    > Does anyone have a reference/link to any well known md5 vulnerabilities.
    > I remeber reading something about them awhile back but couldn't google
    > up anything. Also , are there any arguements *against* using md5? Should
    > persons be using sha1 instead ?
    
    http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/crypto-papers/dobbertin.ps
    
    that's the one you're probably thinking of. completely theoretical, as i
    understand it, meaning md5 is still safe enough for real world use.
    
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