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Re: "Certification Authorities are recommended to stop using MD5 altogether"



On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:39:53 +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:

> http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/
> 
> Could some skilled person comment on the article?
> 
> I noticed around 20 certificates distributed with the package
> ca-certificates have "Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption". Reason
> to worry?
> 
> 
> Cheers,

As an aside to my previous post, you may find the following link 
interesting:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471539

Maybe in a few years, NSS will have disabled the use of MD5 and the 
ancient MD2 algorithm. I wonder how many other insecure algorithms are 
still lurking in NSS, OpenSSL, GNU TLS, Java, etc...

-- 
Sam Morris
https://robots.org.uk/


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