Computerworld

Microsoft: MD5 hack poses no major threats to users

In reaction to the news today that security researchers have come up with a way to spoof the digital certificates that secure many Web sites, Microsoft Corp. downplayed the threat to users. In a ...
Bleeping Computer

This image shows its own MD5 checksum — and it's kind of a big deal

Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and one of the most efficient means to ascertain the integrity of a file, or to check if two ...
EDN

Open-source core implements MD5 cryptography

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Providing a cryptography solution for systems-on-chip, a design and verification engineer has developed an open-source core that implements the MD5 message digest algorithm. The ...
CSOonline

MD5 attack puts RADIUS networks everywhere at risk

A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions. The “secure enough” ...
Network World

Rogue SSL certificate exploit puts VeriSign on the spot

Following the success of researchers last week in creating a false SSL certificate based on VeriSign’s RapidSSL brand, the company is scrambling to explain how it happened, how it’s preventing it from ...
Computerworld

SSL cert. hash hacked on PS3 farm

The researchers planned to present their findings today at the Chaos Communication Congress, a hacker conference being held in Berlin … they say their work shows that the MD5 algorithm should no ...