Cryptanalysis of MD5 and SHA: Time for a new standard

Cryptanalysis of MD5 and SHA: Time for a new standard.

Bruce Schneier talks about the recent reported weaknesses in common hash functions such as MD5. He writes:

As a user of cryptographic systems — as I assume most readers are
— this news is important, but not particularly worrisome. MD5 and SHA
aren't suddenly insecure. No one is going to be breaking digital
signatures or reading encrypted messages anytime soon with these
techniques. The electronic world is no less secure after these
announcements than it was before.

However he says the writing is on the wall. The world has to move on
to newer standards before the real breakthroughs in decryption occur.
[PHP Everywhere – By John Lim]

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