[OT] Micro$oft versus security

[Thomas E. Spanjaard]

walt wrote:
Anyone here agree that MD5 and SHA1 are 'weak' crypto?  Any other
thoughts about the subject?
They're not really weak, but they've been under fire lately. Afaik, the 
chance of finding a duplicate SHA-1 hash is still in the order of 1 in 
2^63, so it's not completely broken down. However I would suggest using 
WHIRLPOOL instead for hashing in programs intended to work like this for 
years to come, and AES/Twofish for block crypto.

Cheers,
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