September 2011
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What is MD5 and Why Should You Care That It's...
I came across an interesting article today discussing a talk with one of Kapersky Lab’s analysts, Evgeny Aseev. The discussion centers around the use of MD5 hashes, how they are no longer enough, and involves a few dropped comments about the H B Gary attack by Anonymous this year. This quickly becomes a bit technical so here’s a quick run-down of MD5.
What is MD5?
MD5 is a cryptographic function...
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DigiNotar Roundups
Early this week, I did a quick and dirty write-up trying to do a high level explanation of what is going on with DigiNotar and why it’s important. Since then there have been a lot of pieces that had dropped that are directly or indirectly related to the incident.
In Context
The ComodoGate hacker has ‘come forward’ claiming responsibility for the DigiNotar crack as well as claimed successful...
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DigiNotar Certificate Authority Comprimise - Some...
During the past week, the compromise of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar has been keeping the security community watching the news. SSL certificates allow encryption of web-traffic between users and servers, and the certificate authorities’ job is to give people some reasonable confidence that the server a user is talking to is who they claim to be. As a result of this attack, several...