[afnog] more md5 collisions...

AINA ALAIN PATRICK(TRS) aalain at trstech.net
Wed Nov 16 13:22:50 EAT 2005


> >>Looks like our md5 checksum example we've taught at the
> >>AfNOG workshops might need to be an sha1 example instead -
> >>for now...
> >
> > sha256, please
>
> Yeah - It seems that sha1 doesn't look like it's going to
> stand up to much more scrutiny.
>
> In FreeBSD one installs:
>
> /usr/ports/sysutils/freebsd-sha256
>
> Is this the best way?

Waiting for pratical and real details on attacks against SHA-1, some think 
that we should  migrate to SHA-256, but look for a more "secure hash 
algorithm"


--alain



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