According to this:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5 and a number of articles I've seen on Slashdot, MD5 is apparently no longer entirely secure...there's a story on /. at the moment actually about Microsoft dropping MD5 for use in Vista.
Should we possibly start considering something else? I know nothing really about cryptography...but the /. post talks about using SHA-256, and I've seen some sites also using GPG. According to that wikipedia article, computing power is now such that 128 bit encryption is susceptible to brute force attacks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
