Mr. J. K M. McKean wrote:
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.
if you don't know, also SHA-1 was broken recently:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis_o.html
stronger algorithms like SHA-256 and SHA-512 are recommended.
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nicu
my OpenOffice.org pages: http://ooo.nicubunu.ro
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