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!

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Wow, interesting read.

I shall read it later. Cheers for sharing!

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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.

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.

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

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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