[oe] Recent wordpress attacks and md5sum

Erik Hovland erik at hovland.org
Sun Mar 4 17:53:17 UTC 2007


On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:54:08PM +0100, Holger Freyther wrote:
> PPS: Yeah md5 is cracked, so is the sha family, any other options?

Use sha256sum? NIST strongly encourages users to switch to sha-256 now
until they finish their hash competition.

sha256sum does come with modern versions of coreutils. SHA-256 should
not be compromised yet...

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