Re: Hashes,File protection,etc

[Jose Nazario <jose () monkey org>]

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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