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Implications Of The Recent Hash Function Attacks

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 1, 2004 @05:40AM from the some-but-not-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cryptography Research has issued a Q&A that explains the security implications of the hash function collision attacks recently announced at CRYPTO 2004. Apparently the consequences can be catastrophic for certain kinds of code signing and digital signatures, but MD5 sums for checking binaries are (mostly) OK. While the speculation that SHA-1 is about to fail seems to be overblown, updating the many legacy systems and protocols that rely on MD5 is going to be a massive undertaking."

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fristage postage by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 05:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

belongs to GNAA
1. Re:fristage postage by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 06:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  klaimed for Trollkore
Meh... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 05:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Do it later.
what rush by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 05:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

don't see no rush...
ah by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 05:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

fp!
Smashing Hashing by l4m3z0r · 2004-09-01 05:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Smashing Hashing, Hashing Smashing... My nursery school taunt in the face of such a discovery has left me with a sour taste in my mouth, and also a horrible lisp that I seem unable to shake.
really now by Guano_Jim · 2004-09-01 05:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Is there anything better than hash?

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