In
<19990623095541(_dot_)F30893(_at_)frodo(_dot_)isil(_dot_)d(_dot_)shuttle(_dot_)de>,
on 06/23/99
at 09:55 AM, Werner Koch <wk(_at_)isil(_dot_)d(_dot_)shuttle(_dot_)de> said:
Tony Mione <mione(_at_)hardees(_dot_)Rutgers(_dot_)EDU> writes:
Any reason for MD5? I understand the SHA-1 is longer. However, it is
thought to be a stronger hash the MD5 at this time.
Yes it is longer and therefore increasing the amount of bytes to
exchange. I can't see a reason for a cryptographic strong hash algorithm
here - it is merely used as a checksum. MD5 is good enough for this.
Actually MD5 seems too large for this but I don't know a good replacement
that would be smaller than MD5 but still large enough to be collision
resistant.
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