md5 encryption

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 15:29:58 -0400,
  Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>Today you might STILL use sha1; it has had tremendous resiliency. NIST 
>was expecting it to fall as badly as md5 by this point.   Most use at 
>least sha256, and sha3 is now out there.  Choose your poison.

sha3 isn't really ready yet (unless something changed within the last 
couple of months). The algorithm was chosen a while ago, but there are 
parameters that need to be chosen and as yet there isn't a standard sha3.