On 09/10/16 21:28, Mike Hodson wrote: > Hello folks, > > At the risk of going somewhat offtopic of this list, however, as this > is the one point of continual reference I have to the Blake2 hash in > common use (I am always interested in learning the new features of > Coreutils and have been a list reader for years now) I must pose the > question: > > Due to md5's easy collision faults, when will the md5 algorithm be > -removed- from coreutils / other security implementations, to prevent > this sort of well-intentioned badness? When will "md5sum" spit out a > string "DO NOT USE THIS ANYMORE" instead of actually working as > historically was the case?
We warn about md5 inadequacies in the info page: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/md5sum and in the bugs section of the man page: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/md5sum.1.html#BUGS I'm not sure it's worth going further at present. thanks, Pádraig
