Re: [PLUG] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

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On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Stewart B. Lone wrote:
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html
>
> How will this affect the encryption program that most of us seem to 
> use?

You should probably disable its use and switch to using SHA-256, 
SHA-512 or RIPEMD160. This, of course, depends on whether or not the 
software you communicate with can support these MD algorithms. I'd wait 
to read the paper first, though, as the reported collision period still 
seems high to me.

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Tobias DiPasquale
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