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.
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