Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System
> MD5 alone can be somewhat dangerous even in benevolent environments: if the
> data sets are large enough or you are just unlucky, you are going to hit a
> colision and corrupt-or-lose-data-on-dedup sooner or later.
it doesn't seem worried about this. Admittedly, they use sha1 rather
than md5, so they have 160bit instead of 128bit, with a correspondingly
lower probability of collisions, but I'd be interested to know about
cases where md5 lead to accidental collisions.
Stefan
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