MD5 obsolite - Whats next?

[Terry Chan]

Why a static binary ?  

Do you mean to write/reproduce all the other crypto devs work by making
a binary to calculate all those various types of checksums (sha1, gpg, md5) ?

Terry Chan
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:05:14PM +0200, Jerry Lundström wrote:
> 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.