Practice Cryptography!
Even with all of the cryptologic and cryptographic technology that has existed in the world for the past 60 years, we still don't really know what encryption is good for or how to use it -- or, more importantly, why it's important. Maybe it's time for people and coders to actually start practicing how to use it, like any other skill.Saturday, April 15, 2006
Just a note... if you're still using MD5, STOP NOW.
http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/MD5_collisions.html
Describes a means of generating an MD5 collision within 31 seconds on a 1.6GHz Pentium system.
Thanks to Phyxis, who pointed me to the entry on Furrbear's journal.
Describes a means of generating an MD5 collision within 31 seconds on a 1.6GHz Pentium system.
Thanks to Phyxis, who pointed me to the entry on Furrbear's journal.
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