Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday

2004-12-08 Thread Eric Rescorla
James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- On 6 Dec 2004 at 16:14, Dan Kaminsky wrote: * Many popular P2P networks (and innumerable distributed content databases) use MD5 hashes as both a reliable search handle and a mechanism to ensure file integrity. This makes them blind to any

Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday

2004-12-08 Thread John Kelsey
From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 7, 2004 6:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday But even back when I implemented Crypto Kong, the orthodoxy was that one should use SHA1, even though it is slower than MD5, so it seems to me that MD5

MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday

2004-12-07 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 6 Dec 2004 at 16:14, Dan Kaminsky wrote: * Many popular P2P networks (and innumerable distributed content databases) use MD5 hashes as both a reliable search handle and a mechanism to ensure file integrity. This makes them blind to any signature embedded within MD5 collisions.