Comments on: MD5 Bites the Dust http://esignaturepost.com/2009/01/06/md5-bites-the-dust/ Yet another Electronic Signature weblog Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Wall http://esignaturepost.com/2009/01/06/md5-bites-the-dust/#comment-161 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:53:20 +0000 http://esignaturepost.com/?p=59#comment-161 This is a bit funny only because SHA-1 is an old algorithm, too, and itself is being found to be lacking. There’s a new competition (like how AES was selected in the US) for a replacement hashing algorithm, with some just hoping for SHA-256 or the like as it’s familiar.

But moving from MD5 to SHA-1 in 2009 is certainly not indicative of technical progress or sophistication.

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