Weakness in MD5 or SHA-1 ?

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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Franz Scheerer wrote:

> Don't worry about SHA-1
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famous last words. not that i think an attack is around the corner... but 
it's unlikely that research will make FIPS 180-1 any stronger.



> and replace MD5.
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agreed. MD5 is well on its way to becoming more of a 128 bit checksum and 
less of a secure hash.


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