Find Me a Hash by Susan Landau
 

This was quite an interesting read by Susan Landau. Essentially she briefly covers why both MD5 and SHA1 are now considered to be unsafe. She also goes on to recommend a hash which even the supercomputers would find it difficult to reverse!

Wow, interesting read.

I shall read it later. Cheers for sharing!

Definitely an interesting read, thanks for sharing.

It's a pleasure all :-) I remember somebody mentioning on here that programmers should now begin to use the hash module, as opposed to relying solely on the md5 and sha1 functions. I couldn't agree more after reading that! I think from now on I'll be using SHA-256.

i think i mentioned about hash while back, but anyway thanks for that m8, a very good read indeed.

No offense, but this sounds like a plagiarized version of Wiki regarding MD5 and SHA[1-512].. in some spots it's almost verbatim, however on some topics she barely touched on where are the Wiki fully described it - could it possibly be a rip? ^^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5