Lookaside: Move away from md5

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Mar 19 15:36:52 UTC 2014


On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:58:20 -0500
Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 13:23:27 +0800,
>    Mathieu Bridon <bochecha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> >I would personally prefer that we stored only one hash, and that we'd
> >use the strongest currently available. (that would be sha512?)
> 
> The sha-3 competition is done (over a year ago) and Keccak was
> selected. I think it would make more sense to go to that rather than
> sha512. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-3

I did a quick look around, but likely missed it... are there actually
any tools that implement this yet?

kevin
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