On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > So many smart people are in the discussion about MD5 ... > I have a temptation to ask: why hash in the first place?!? (does not > matter MD5 or SHA-2) > The topic as of late is tied to IOS storing MD5 checksums of authorized SSH public keys for authentication. I presume the sole purpose of this was to simply avoid storing the entirety of the public key (usually ~535 bytes for a 4096-bit key). _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TN347X2CRSIR76OLJAOKL4ILUXEZGHW5/
