ciphergoth comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 20 July 2010 06:39:01AM *  3 points [-]

MD5 is utterly utterly broken and recommended against for any purpose. Use SHA-1.

EDIT: I should mention that SHA-1 is also theoretically broken and may see a demonstrated break soon, but nothing like as problematic as MD5. Until SHA-3 is agreed, the SHA-2 functions are a good stopgap where you need better security.

Comment author: orthonormal 20 July 2010 06:01:04PM 0 points [-]

Thanks; I'll do so in the future.