Re: [OT] Micro$oft versus security

["Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:
> Anyone here agree that MD5 and SHA1 are 'weak' crypto?  Any other
> thoughts about the subject?

They're not really weak, but they've been under fire lately. Afaik, the 
chance of finding a duplicate SHA-1 hash is still in the order of 1 in 
2^63, so it's not completely broken down. However I would suggest using 
WHIRLPOOL instead for hashing in programs intended to work like this for 
years to come, and AES/Twofish for block crypto.

Cheers,
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		-- Thomas E. Spanjaard
		   tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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