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Michal Jaegermann
michal at harddata.com
Fri Mar 18 21:46:03 UTC 2005
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:55:44PM -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>
> FC4t1 uses sha1sum for some reason, not md5sum.
Possibly because there was recently a successful crypographic attack
against SHA-1. :-) See
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0503.html
http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~yiqun/shanote.pdf
Don't worry. It does not look like that this will be a practical
threat for signatures on distribution images, or many other things,
for quite a while yet.
Michal
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