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Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)



On Friday, October 12, 2012 05:10:12 David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer
> 
> <calestyo@scientia.net> wrote:
> > algo,... not to mention that newer algos like Keccack are quite fast.
> 
> I wonder if it is really a good idea to search for a security checksum
> based on the metric that it can be quickly calculated … but off-topic.

FWIW, NIST disagrees. Keccack is SHA-3: 
<http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/winner_sha-3.html>

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