On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:25:36PM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
> PyPI has historically used MD5 in order to verify the downloads. However MD5 
> is severely broken and is generally regarded as something that should be 
> migrated away from ASAP. From speaking with a number of cryptographers 
> they've more or less said that the major reason they believe that MD5 hasn't 
> had a published pre-image attack is just because it's so broken that most 
> researchers have moved on to newer hashes.

Who said that? That contradicts my beliefs.

Thanks!

Regards,

Zooko
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