MD5 - The Internet has a Major Problem

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jan 3, 2009 9:18 PM EDT
iTWire - Information Technology News; By David Heath
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Firstly, allow me to recap. A couple of days ago, I reported a presentation at the Chaos Computer Club conference in Berlin which outlined a major problem with the way Certificate Authorities handle message hashing, essentially this attack relied on well-known problems with the MD5 hash algorithm. Problems based on hash collisions, which were previously considered to be theoretical having been discovered in 2004, were now well-lodged within the domain of reality.

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