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

Martin List-Petersen martin at airwire.ie
Sat Jan 3 16:58:16 UTC 2009


Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> 
>> MD5 is broken, don't use it for anything important.
> 
> You mean like for BGP neighbors?  Wanna suggest an alternative? :-)
> 

MD5 on BGP sessions has already been proven to not being that effective
anyhow, for the purpose that it was intended for.

I don't think these findings will make any difference there.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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