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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2010-08-10 01:56:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-08-15 01:02:44 +0100 |
| commit | 9e900e81dbb64c529a99abf6520d95245897cf84 (patch) | |
| tree | 5013cfde75539407aab679823e98e62681c724d6 /man | |
| parent | b5f9a6a176a32d73745fc61366c26f2c1ff9fca7 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-9e900e81dbb64c529a99abf6520d95245897cf84.tar.xz | |
doc: improve the info on md5sum security weaknesses
* doc/coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Mention currently known
security problems. Don't recommend SHA-1 as alternative.
* man/md5sum.x (BUGS): Warn about the vulnerabilities and
reference the SHA-2 based alternatives.
Reported by Simon Josefsson
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/md5sum.x | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/md5sum.x b/man/md5sum.x index 4a6547781..93f93e272 100644 --- a/man/md5sum.x +++ b/man/md5sum.x @@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ md5sum \- compute and check MD5 message digest [DESCRIPTION] .\" Add any additional description here +[BUGS] +The MD5 algorithm should not be used any more for security related purposes. +Instead, better use an SHA\-2 algorithm, implemented in the programs +sha224sum(1), sha256sum(1), sha384sum(1), sha512sum(1) |