Re: Recovering from bad disk ...

LuKreme <kremels-/[email protected]> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:00:26 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.macosx.admin
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On 10-Mar-2011, at 14:33, Dan Shoop wrote:
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> On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> For anything particularly important you can use md5 and get a checksum for comparison.
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> md5 has been proven to insecure and has collisions. 

And yet, or the vast majority of people and uses, md5 is just fine.

> Use SHA instead when comparing "fingerprints" as md5 "fingerprints are not unique. 

SHA-1 is just as broken as md5 though, and because SHA-2 is basically the same and uses much of the same algorithms, it is considered suspect. SHA-3 doesn't exist yet.

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