Template:Hash Functions
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The Past and the Future
Recent breakthrough-results on hash functions like MD5 and SHA-1 cast some doubts on their fitness for particular applications. Which applications? What is the real impact?What are standardization organisations (NIST, ISO, IETF, ETSI, ...) doing / planning to do?Is it possible to fix existing hash functions without changing their inner working?Shall we replace MD5 and SHA-1 immediately? What are our alternatives anyway?Many questions, some insights and answers in this talk.
