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author | Niels Provos <provos@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-03-07 11:25:38 +0000 |
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committer | Niels Provos <provos@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-03-07 11:25:38 +0000 |
commit | 9923ebdbf3ae5250f46efdae9fce280644e4621c (patch) | |
tree | c6069543bbdb1493cfad24ba1e3a7c5b86a4e0d6 /lib/libc/md | |
parent | b0f3193acd48ed11bcfc94633f10289f08567023 (diff) |
mention collision found by Dobbertin
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/md')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/md/mdX.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/md/mdX.3 b/lib/libc/md/mdX.3 index f659eab3de2..beda96e9e25 100644 --- a/lib/libc/md/mdX.3 +++ b/lib/libc/md/mdX.3 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ .\" this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: mdX.3,v 1.4 1996/10/15 22:00:12 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mdX.3,v 1.5 1997/03/07 11:25:37 provos Exp $ .\" .Dd October 9, 1996 .Dt MDX 3 @@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ argument is non-null it must point to at least 33 characters of buffer space. .%A RSA Laboratories .%T Frequently Asked Questions About today's Cryptography .Re +.Rs +.%A Hans Dobbertin +.%T Cryptanalysis of MD5 Compress +.Re .Sh AUTHOR The original MDX routines were developed by .Tn RSA @@ -127,9 +131,8 @@ Phk ristede runen. These functions appeared in .Em FreeBSD-2.0 . .Sh BUGS -No method is known to exist which finds two files having the same hash value, -nor to find a file with a specific hash value. -There is on the other hand no guarantee that such a method doesn't exist. +Hans Dobbertin has found a collision in the compress function of MD5 and +recommends using SHA or RIPEMD-160 instead. .Pp MD2 has only been licensed for use in Privacy Enhanced Mail. Use MD4 or MD5 if that isn't what you're doing. |