MD5 obsolite - Whats next?

Jerry Lundström prox at lunar-linux.org
Fri Aug 20 14:05:14 GMT 2004


Hi all,

Well, md5 might not be obsolite just yet but it is good if we start 
planning on what to do next.

I'm proposing a lunar specific tool (lsum ?), a static binary that can 
handle all the nice enc types we want (SHA-1, PGP/GPG etc).
It should be able to directly take in the VFY syntax (lsum md5:XXX.. 
file) and work in if's.

So what about this idea?

I also recommend that once we have a tool we move to SHA-1 as it said to 
be alot stronger and that the ppl behind breaking MD5 has yet found a 
good way to battle the SHA-1.


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