Re: [Newbie] Advice needed regarding SHA0 SHA1 MD5

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Sha1 is still what pretty much everyone still uses. The current
> approved successor to sha1 is sha256 (one of the sha-2 family), but
> it's not used much yet. There's an upcoming NIST workshop on hash
> functions where the sha1 situation will be discussed, and who knows
> what will come out.
Might be a good idea to look for alternatives to Sha-256. not only is putting
all your eggs into one basket a poor idea, but IIRC sha256 is now patented (by
the NSA) so you would potentially have to pay royalties for every crypto app out
there that uses it - that's a lot of royalties to use something that is hoped
will be made a "standard".
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:52:54 2005