[110344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin List-Petersen)
Sat Jan 3 11:58:33 2009
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:58:16 +0000
From: Martin List-Petersen <martin@airwire.ie>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901031851230.17922@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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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