Re: [Newbie] Advice needed regarding SHA0 SHA1 MD5

Joseph Ashwood wrote:

> "Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message
> news:7x8xya36rd.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com...
>
> I will agree with pretty much everything Paul said, but I will add that
> SHA-512 is also an approved successor, does offer more security, and on a
> 64-bit system is often significantly faster, and as such may be worthwhile
> for your purposes if you spend a lot of time on 64-bit machines.
> Additionally, I will urge you to make preparations to move to a new hash
> function if/when the need arises for this my standard recommendation is
> Whirlpool due to the fact that it is radically different from any of the
> others.
> Joe
>
>

I thought you said that under certain circmstances you could
effectively reverse MD5 in about an hour? But Paul said that
passwords hashed by MD5 are safe? Do you agree with that, even
though it is in direct contradiction to your earlier statements?
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:53:00 2005