Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:14:23 GMT From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/130239: md5(1); md5 is reported to be compromised, but manpage reports others! Message-ID: <200901061714.n06HENnP099623@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200901061720.n06HK3EX098755@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 130239 >Category: docs >Synopsis: md5(1); md5 is reported to be compromised, but manpage reports others! >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 06 17:20:03 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: O. Hartmann >Release: FreeBSD 8-CUR/AMD64 >Organization: FU Berlin >Environment: >Description: MD5(1) hash algorithm is reported to be compromised. This fact known in theory since 2004 has been undergone aproval on the 25th Annual Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany. MD5 is now considered harmful! Manpage of md5(1) should have a note on that, the line "... MD5 has not yet (2007-03-05) been broken..." should be corrected. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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