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   meneer Registered Member

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   DES, MDA4, MDA5 and SHA-1 dropped in MS code:
   
   Here's the article

    

   meneer, Sep 16, 2005

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   lotuseclat79 Registered Member

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   Hi meneer,
   
   And with good reason as MD5 (128-bit encryption) has been cracked! Read here: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GoodbyeMD5.asp
   and here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html
   
   Viable alternatives are:
   * Stronger encryption functions than MD5 (128bit)
   Whirpool(512bit): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHIRLPOOL
   Ripemd(160,128,320bit): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIPEMD-160
   Sha-2(256,512bit): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
   
   -- Tom

    

   lotuseclat79, Sep 16, 2005

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