On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 21:00:53 -0400, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > There is little doubt that sometime soon some fiendish > mathematician somewhere will discover that sha256sum > is really hopelessly broken and only a fool would ever > have used it, then we'll all have to switch to > shaalephnullsum or some such :-). There is already a process going on to create a new hash standard similar to what was done for AES. The SHA-2 hashes are thought to be weak since they use a scheme similar to MD5 and SHA1 and those have serious problems now, but are still usable in most cases. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-3 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
