There is a fair amount of confusion surrounding the recent research resulting in the ability to create bogus SSL certificates. The research combined a weakness in the certificate generation process ...
Many organizations have been replacing the MD5 hash algorithm with the SHA-1 hash function, but can the MD5 hash algorithm still be used securely? MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a cryptographic ...
Mahathi Kari's research contributes to this conversation by examining one of the foundational building blocks of secure computing: cryptographic hashing.
Microsoft has given customers six months to find MD5 installations and prepare for a February 2014 patch that will block the broken algorithm. The clock is running on Windows administrators to sweep ...