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PGP Moving To Stronger SHA Algorithms
PGP Corp. is moving to a stronger SHA Algorithm (SHA-256 and SHA-512) as consequence of the research conducted by the team at Shandong University in China who broke the SHA-1 algorithm. (See this earlier story for more information on the SHA-1 vulnerability.)
In other news, advertising on Slashdot is now free: just submit your ad as a story, and some editor will post it without even reading it.
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
The United States of America has had export restrictions for strong cryptography since the 70s for a very good reason. The American government foresaw the threats posed by terrorists and rogue states with WMD and avoided making encyrption technology easily available so that it could monitor the communications of terrorists who would seek to harm us.
Since then, the USA's encyrption policy has been undermined from so-called allies such as Canada and Mexico such that these technologies are in the public domain and commonly used in communicating things that threaten our national security.
The use of PHP wastes the time of our security agencies decoding messages. I'd like PHP users to think to themselves "what do I have to hide?" before encyrpting email. There is no good excuse for encrypting emails of the type you send to your friends and family. Doing so wastes the time of others.
Can't wait for use of the tag in the topics, next.