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Date:   Sat, 24 Sep 2022 03:02:32 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <bhaskarlinux73@gmail.com>
To:     Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel:gen_kheaders:Replace md5sum to sha256sum
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On 11:12 Fri 23 Sep 2022, Daniel Mentz wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 4:06 AM Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thought to apply a better encryption mechanism.
>
>MD5 and SHA256 are secure (or, in the case of MD5, not so secure) hash
>algorithms, not encryption mechanisms.
>
>> Replace all occurance of md5sum to sha256sum .
>
>Looking at this script, I'm not convinced that it relies on MD5 being
>a cryptophically secure hash function. It appears to me as if this
>script uses MD5 to simply detect innocent changes to a set of files as
>opposed to guarding against malicious attacks. I also found that
>sha256sum takes almost three times longer than md5sum. So, in the
>absence of security requirements, md5sum might actually be the better
>choice because it's faster.

Al righto! Then...no issues, give it a pass.
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Bhaskar

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