Subject: Re: Verifying a kernel.
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/20/2005 14:26:16
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Salut,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:02:17PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 4) Allow various algorithms: SHA1, MD5, etc.

Don't allow MD5! Also, SHA1 is a candidate that shouldn't be trusted just
like this. Why?

 - people might use it
 - people might decide to use it for security relevant functions
 - people are thereby prone to the typical MD5 bit flipping attacks et al.

I'm talking myself blue in the face on that: Don't use md5.

				Tonnerre

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