Re: New field proposed, UUID
* Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [001129 16:17]:
> [...] sign a concacentation of their md5sums? [...]
> I don't understand how signing a uuid that is just listed in the control
> file and could be modified by anyone is cryptographically secure.
I would like to suggest that whatever signature scheme is in the works
use something stronger than md5. Problems have been found in its
compression function, and its small bit-length doesn't help much either.
Using SHA-1 or a hash based on the AES standard would give more
cryptographic confidence.
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