[fitsbits] Hash Functions (MD5 is very obsolete)
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:
Apologies if you see this more than once.
FYI. A reminder that MD5 has been obsolete for several years. So
obsolete that even the U.S. federal government now regards its
successor as similarly obsolete :-)
Is anyone on the list aware of uses of the MD5 checksum in FITS
beyond protection against accidental bitflips from bad hardware?
Just trying to evaluate the urgency of a change...
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