On 10-Mar-2011, at 14:33, Dan Shoop wrote: > > > On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> For anything particularly important you can use md5 and get a checksum for >> comparison. > > md5 has been proven to insecure and has collisions.
And yet, or the vast majority of people and uses, md5 is just fine. > Use SHA instead when comparing "fingerprints" as md5 "fingerprints are not > unique. SHA-1 is just as broken as md5 though, and because SHA-2 is basically the same and uses much of the same algorithms, it is considered suspect. SHA-3 doesn't exist yet. -- If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
