Re: [Cfrg] [saag] Further MD5 breaks: Creating a rogue CAcertificate

Santosh Chokhani wrote:

> So, if you are relying on CAs, why not ask them to switch to SHA-1 as
> opposed to adding more software to the CA.  SHA-1 is purely a
> configuration item for the CA deployments.
Because someday SHA-1 (and SHA-2, or any hash algorithm) may be subject 
to a similar collision generation attack, and the presence of 
unpredictable data in the cert will defeat it as well.
Just trying to be proactive here.

-- Tim

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