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Date:      Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:44:37 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MD5 man page
Message-ID:  <86k5eiwr22.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730808131923o1ce56bc7i32b52ca884a54c@mail.gmail.com> (Ivan Voras's message of "Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:23:40 %2B0200")
References:  <9bbcef730808131923o1ce56bc7i32b52ca884a54c@mail.gmail.com>

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"Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> writes:
> "MD5 has not yet (1999-02-11) been broken [...]"
> Shouldn't it be updated or at least the date of the statement moved to
> somewhere in this century?

It should be updated, MD5 has been further weakened since then.  This is
why the ports tree now uses SHA256 checksums in addition to MD5.  See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 for additional details.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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