[nycbug-talk] SHA

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 16, 2005, at 23:05, Jesse Callaway wrote:

> So anyone have any news on the further implications of the SHA 
> collisions found? There was a link in Cryptogram this month, but the 
> paper was absurdly short with the only explicit information being in 
> the form of what amounts to "evidence" that collisions were found.

IIRC, despite the recent findings (I'm not sure if the full paper has 
even been published yet, so it's hard to say whether they're correct or 
not), SHA-1 still more secure than MD5... so until SHA-2 is finalized 
and readily available it's probably still your best choice for a hash 
algorithm.

-bob