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Re: MD5 warning

2004-08-21 14:23:20

* David Shaw wrote:
That said, the security considerations section of the draft currently
has some language mildly discouraging the use of MD5 ("The MD5 hash
algorithm has been found to have weaknesses (pseudo-collisions in the
compress function) that make some people deprecate its use.  They
consider the SHA-1 algorithm better.")  Can we make this stronger, and
deprecate MD5 use for OpenPGP in general?

Not necessary. All known attacks does not impose a direct risk to md5 based
OpenPGP issues.


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