NaveWeiss's Journal: MD5 - living in uncertainty

The recent news about MD5 collisions makes me feel bad.. aren't all the encryption programs based on MD5? It makes them all so meaningless.

And what's worse: Even if they find a better hasing algorithm, it'll still be defeated once quantum computing becomes a reality (it'll allow you to check all the possibilities at once, and easily defeat any possible encryption. However it'll allow a better way to encrypt stuff).

It's hard to live like that. I always hated manual signatures and hoped for a better authentcation way.. but I'm afraid they'll be around for too long before we find a better way to encrpt and digitally sign.

BTW: I'm supposed to meet a girl in today's Book Week. Wish me luck.