On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:31:42AM +0100, Polarizer wrote:
What impact does is have for our SuSE linux installations. Where is it used by default in standard packages and where by default in packages to install additionally via Yast.
I found it exempli gratia in SSH for integrity checks (seems not critical) or in gpg for fingerprints.
From [1]: : It pretty much puts a bullet into SHA-1 as a hash function for digital : signatures (although it doesn't affect applications such as HMAC where : collisions aren't important).
So it doesn't look that bad for most uses (although certificates a a very critical use). Ciao Joerg -- Joerg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.