Re: MD5 or SHA code

bram (bram@gawth.com)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:40:29 -0700 (PDT)

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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, C Matthew Curtin wrote:

> You might also want to be aware that Hans Dobbertin has done some
> interesting attacks against MD5. While he hasn't shown real breakage
> in any sense, he argues that his results look like some of the early
> results against MD4, and that we might want to avoid MD5 for new
> applications.
>
> See CryptoBytes, v2n2,
> <http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/pubs/cryptobytes/html/article_index.html>
>
> I'm curious what others think about the attack, and whether it's
> paranoia to suggest avoiding MD5.

Who needs paranoia? We've got SHA-1 and RIPEMD-160, so what reason is
there to use MD5?

-Bram

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