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authorNiels Provos <provos@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-03-07 11:25:38 +0000
committerNiels Provos <provos@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-03-07 11:25:38 +0000
commit9923ebdbf3ae5250f46efdae9fce280644e4621c (patch)
treec6069543bbdb1493cfad24ba1e3a7c5b86a4e0d6 /lib/libc/md
parentb0f3193acd48ed11bcfc94633f10289f08567023 (diff)
mention collision found by Dobbertin
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/md')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/md/mdX.311
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.