Way to go! I'm really glad this is in here now and people can use it. Pull-request: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/pull/8
Regards, Zooko On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 Oct 2016 19:37, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 09/10/16 21:28, Mike Hodson wrote: >> > 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. > > nor should we. md5's can be used in places where protection against > malicious inputs isn't relevant, and you have backwards compat with > existing tools. you could make the same argument for cksum. > -mike -- Regards, Zooko Wilcox Founder and Advisor https://LeastAuthority.com — Freedom matters.
