Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Sep 2022 03:02:32 +0530 | From | Bhaskar Chowdhury <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel:gen_kheaders:Replace md5sum to sha256sum |
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On 11:12 Fri 23 Sep 2022, Daniel Mentz wrote: >On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 4:06 AM Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thought to apply a better encryption mechanism. > >MD5 and SHA256 are secure (or, in the case of MD5, not so secure) hash >algorithms, not encryption mechanisms. > >> Replace all occurance of md5sum to sha256sum . > >Looking at this script, I'm not convinced that it relies on MD5 being >a cryptophically secure hash function. It appears to me as if this >script uses MD5 to simply detect innocent changes to a set of files as >opposed to guarding against malicious attacks. I also found that >sha256sum takes almost three times longer than md5sum. So, in the >absence of security requirements, md5sum might actually be the better >choice because it's faster.
Al righto! Then...no issues, give it a pass. -- Thanks, Bhaskar
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