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WebApp Sec: Re: MD5 math question

Re: MD5 math question

From: exon <exon_at_home.se>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:59:07 +0100

Tim wrote:
> Hi exon,
>
>>All this is ofcourse theory. I don't know enough cryptography to
>>determine what is possible and what isn't, but since SHA1 hasn't been
>>broken (yet) and there are enough open and free implementations of it to
>>go around I'm a bit surprised to find that MD5 is considered for use in
>>new applications.
>
>
> Um... You didn't get the news about SHA1?
>

Nopes. Or I bought the propaganda saying "an incorrect implementation of
SHA1 has been broken". Shame on me either way. So what are we left with?
SHA-<lots-of-numbers-higher-than-1> ?

/exon

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