On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Joseph Wright wrote: > Depends what you are using it for. Collisions are possible in MD5 so > it's no longer suitable for cryptographic applications. Here, however, > we are talking about avoiding the more prosaic issues of people having > not-quite matching sources. (We are *not* talking about signing > documents.) For the use case I have in mind MD5 will happily do the job.
The message from Ross Moore to which I was replying specifically mentioned protection from modification by "malware" as a case where MD5 would be helpful, and that's what prompted my comment. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
