[PLUG] Different file sizes on different computers

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Dec 10 16:04:23 UTC 2013


On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Rigel Hope wrote:

> MD5 has been mostly broken for the better part of a decade. I use sha512
> but that might be broken too now for all I know.

For this use, md5 isn't really broken because no one is trying to 
create collisions. It's only in cases where a malicious interloper is 
looking to hijack a digest that md5 should be set aside for sha1 or, 
better, the sha-2 digest family.

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Paul Heinlein
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