On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:27 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > There aren't any. That is, there aren't any such plans *anymore*, as > SHA256 is already in use and that page is partially misleading, cf. I recently started a discussion on debian-devel about moving to even stronger hashes like SHA512 or Keccack. > ----- 8< ----- > What does it mean for md5sum to be broken? Since it's a checksum, I > thought the only way it can be broken is that it fail to compute the > proper checksum. I have a feeling some other meaning is intended. > --RossBoylan That's complete nonsense.... md5sum is at first place a hash algorithm (and not a checksum) for which collision resistance is utterly important. Cheers, Chris.
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