60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

Happy World Password Day! Maybe it's finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day?
PC World

Continued support for MD5 endangers widely used cryptographic protocols

The old and insecure MD5 hashing function hasn’t been used to sign SSL/TLS server certificates in many years, but continues to be used in other parts of encrypted communications protocols, including ...

Mastering Cryptographic Hash Functions for Data Security

Learn about cryptographic hash functions in ensuring secure communication and protection of sensitive information, including ...
EDN

Cryptography for embedded systems – Part 1: Security level categories & hashing

In this chapter we will look at choosing and optimizing cryptographic algorithms, particularly for resource-constrained systems, such as embedded systems. We will look at various strategies for ...
ZDNet

Putting the cracking of SHA-1 in perspective

SHA-1 is one of the most prevalent forms of a secure hash algorithm used in the legal and security industry. Now that Professor Xiaoyun Wang and her associates in Tsinghua University and Shandong ...
Ars Technica

Fatally weak MD5 function torpedoes crypto protections in HTTPS and IPSEC

If you thought MD5 was banished from HTTPS encryption, you’d be wrong. It turns out the fatally weak cryptographic hash function, along with its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin, are still widely ...