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March 5th, 2007

Let’s Digest Some Messages - md5 Hash Checker for Windows

Of course it’s a small article about md5… I really wondered how many Micro$oft Windows users check the md5 sum of programs that they download from the internet…
Do you really trust that much the mirror websites?
Even I could set up a mirror website for any download website and spread malformed packages to include, trojans, backdoors, [...]

March 2nd, 2007

SHA-1 Cracked - Old News, But People Still Talk

A paper about cracking SHA-1 originally surfaced in 2005, from a fairly reputable scientific source in China, it was widely publicised nor talked about much.
But then recently, just last month China managed to make a wave out of it, almost 2 years after the initial ‘report’.
It was even Slashdotted on January 20th 2007, the article [...]