On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:46 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > MD5 is not collision resistant. > As far as I know this is not relevant to any of its uses in BOINC. Does that mean it is used as a PRF in Boinc (what else is there besides hashing and prf)? If its a PRF, it should be easy enough to swap out for something healthier.
Please forgive my ignorance. Jeff > On 27-Jan-2013 1:55 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Is it possible to disable use of MD5? (I checked configure, and there >> does not appear to be a switch). >> >> MD5 is completely broken, and has no cryptographic value. Yet it >> appears to be used in cryptographic routines. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
