certificate cleanliness sha1rightlol [was Re: [tor-talk] How does one remove the NSA Virus off the BIOS Chip as described by Snowden in the ANT Program]

[coderman]

On 12/10/15, Travis Biehn <tbiehn at gmail.com> wrote:
> SHA1 & MD5 are still 'fine' to use as MAC, not fine to use in digital
> signatures (like, X.509.) (Because collisions attacks don't make sense for
> MACs brueh.)


very true!

though i was mostly mocking the sha1 CA root and "Trusted: NO, there
were errors: The certificate authority's certificate is invalid." ...
:)


best regards,