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author | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-28 02:48:51 +0000 |
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committer | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-28 02:48:51 +0000 |
commit | 62cedd908a624bdacbdd0154d0cf129e694cb27a (patch) | |
tree | f51908ea9494d7691cc1869f33a48fa2a2707863 /lib/libmd/mdX.3 | |
parent | d4577289f5bcc75fd682e6b0410353b3cde2e447 (diff) | |
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Remove the RFC 1319 MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm routines from libmd.
1. The licensing terms for the MD2 routines from RFC is not under a BSD-like
license. Instead it is only granted for non-commercial Internet
Privacy-Enhanced Mail.
2. MD2 is quite deprecated as it is no longer considered a cryptographically
strong algorithm.
Discussed with: so (cperciva), core
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libmd/mdX.3')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libmd/mdX.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libmd/mdX.3 b/lib/libmd/mdX.3 index 03f50f1..223e2ef 100644 --- a/lib/libmd/mdX.3 +++ b/lib/libmd/mdX.3 @@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ This net result is a .Dq fingerprint of the input-data, which does not disclose the actual input. .Pp -MD2 is the slowest, MD4 is the fastest and MD5 is somewhere in the middle. -MD2 can only be used for Privacy-Enhanced Mail. +MD4 is the fastest and MD5 is somewhat slower. MD4 has now been broken; it should only be used where necessary for backward compatibility. MD5 has not yet (1999-02-11) been broken, but sufficient attacks have been @@ -144,16 +143,10 @@ If the .Fa buf argument is non-null it must point to at least 33 characters of buffer space. .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr md2 3 , .Xr md4 3 , .Xr md5 3 , .Xr sha 3 .Rs -.%A B. Kaliski -.%T The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm -.%O RFC 1319 -.Re -.Rs .%A R. Rivest .%T The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm .%O RFC 1186 @@ -192,6 +185,3 @@ Phk ristede runen. No method is known to exist which finds two files having the same hash value, nor to find a file with a specific hash value. There is on the other hand no guarantee that such a method does not exist. -.Pp -MD2 has only been licensed for use in Privacy Enhanced Mail. -Use MD4 or MD5 if that is not what you are doing. |