Re: [freenet-chat] PGP signatures

[Adam Langley]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:11:14PM -0500, Mathew Ryden wrote:
> MD5 is insecure. Don't use it. SHA1 is quite secure.

MD5 isn't bad, but here is the draft for the new SHA FIPS for all
those really paranoid people out there:

"NIST is proposing 
the expansion of the hash standard to include additional algorithms 
that produce a 256-bit, 384-bit, and 512-bit message digest."

(general page) http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/tkhash.html]
(the draft doc) http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/shs/dfips-180-2.pdf

First person to suggest that we need 512-bit CHKs gets a slap.

AGL

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