1996-07-02 - Re: rsync and md4

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From: David Rosoff <drosoff@arc.unm.edu>
To: ogren@cris.com
Message Hash: 5e962e6d321cf4657c850610d97ebf8bc4989127b2b0205fe7f5712ec8feb957
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UTC Datetime: 1996-07-02 07:23:08 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 15:23:08 +0800

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From: David Rosoff <drosoff@arc.unm.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 15:23:08 +0800
To: ogren@cris.com
Subject: Re: rsync and md4
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19960702023938.4637d0c4@arc.unm.edu>
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At 11.36 AM 7/1/96 -0400, David F. Ogren wrote:

>2.
>(quoted from Mr. Perry in an article entitled "MD5 breaks, etc.")
>
>>   checked. However, the result is widely known. MD5 is *not*
>>   something that should be trusted going forward, and I hope the next
>>   version of PGP uses SHA-1.
>
>As I understand the current plans, PGP 3.0 _will_ incorporate a SHA option. 
>In fact, I believe that there may already be "bootleg" versions that 
>incorporate SHA.

What is the difference between SHA and SHA-1? Is this algorithm subject
to the same licensing as MD5?

Could someone point me to such a bootleg version for DOS, please?

Thanks.

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