On Wednesday 30 June 2010 18:38:51 Steve Edwards wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > > I would generally suggest something a little more deterministic (where > > 101 is your extension): > > > > $ echo '101This is a salt' | sha1sum > > 22c3c098bfc2289396af84ecfb1ab77419a6537e > > Aside from being 8 characters longer, why do you prefer sha1sum to md5sum?
The use of MD5 is gradually being displaced, as crypto attacks are getting better. Since SHA1 is usually the replacement, I went with it, since it's also likely to be available on systems. While SHA1 will eventually succumb to the same attacks as MD5, due to its larger bitstrength, it has quite a few years left in it, before we need to start thinking about SHA256 or SHA512 to replace it. -- Tilghman Lesher Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Developer twitter: Corydon76 | IRC: Corydon76-dig (Freenode) Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
