Re: What is the best way to create and validate an MD5 file fingerprint?

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:48:48 -0600, McKirahan <News@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"mark4asp" <mark4asp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
In 1996, a flaw was found with the design of MD5; while it was not a
clearly fatal weakness, cryptographers began to recommend using other
algorithms, such as SHA-1. In 2004, more serious flaws were
discovered making further use of the algorithm for security purposes
questionable."

It's worth mentioning that SHA-1 has similar flaws that make it less
suitable for security than it once was as well. Either would still be
suitable for simply verifying that a file was not corrupted in transit,
though.

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