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Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5 flaw.


From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:22:06 +0200

At 06:44 PM 03-01-09 +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

You mean like for BGP neighbors?  Wanna suggest an alternative? :-)

Well, most likely MD5 is better than the alterantive today which is to run no authentication/encryption at all.

But we should push whoever is developing these standards to go for SHA-1 or equivalent instead of MD5 in the longer term.

Who is working on this?  I don't find anything here:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idr-charter.html

All I can find is:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2385.txt
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3562.txt
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4278.txt

Nothing on replacing MD5 for BGP.

-Hank



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