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Re: Time to replace MD5?



On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Touko Korpela wrote:
> Debian Security Advisories currently contain MD5 checksums. As MD5 is no 
> longer strong enough, maybe it should be replaced by SHA1 or SHA256?

When combined with size information AND the fact that it needs to be a valid
.deb archive, they are probably more than strong enough.

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  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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