On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Norberto Meijome wrote:
Hi everyone, Not sure if you've read http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/SoftIntCodeSign/ . should some kind of advisory be sent to advise people not to rely solely on MD5 checksums? Maybe an update to the man page is due ? : " MD5 has not yet (2001-09-03) been broken, but sufficient attacks have been made that its security is in some doubt. The attacks on MD5 are in the nature of finding ``collisions'' -- that is, multiple inputs which hash to the same value; it is still unlikely for an attacker to be able to determine the exact original input given a hash value. "
Some measures are already taken: - FreeBSD ports use not only MD5 but SHA256 additionaly - Same applied for FreeBSD ISO images Best Regards, Janos Mohacsi Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning and Projects NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY Key 70EF9882: DEC2 C685 1ED4 C95A 145F 4300 6F64 7B00 70EF 9882 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
