MD5 "...was all but broken by a German cryptographer, Hans Dobbertin..."[1] in 1996 wrote PGP's creator and founder of PGP Corporation, Phil Zimmermann. His application used RSA's MD5 and has changed to using SHA-1, also openly published developed by the NSA for the NIST. I notice you use MD5 checksums on OOo downloads on your website and I recommend changing to SHA-1.

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Jerome K Maule M^c Kean

[1] Zimmermann, Phil /An Introduction to Cryptography/ (PGP Corporation, 2003) p. 40.



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