On 6/25/06, Steve G <linux_4ever(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
I just wanted everyone to understand the significance of this announcement:
>coreutils-5.96-4
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>* Sun Jun 25 2006 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 5.96-4
>- Include new hashes (bug #196369). Patch from upstream.
>- Build at -O1 on s390 for the moment (bug #196369).
This adds sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum utilities to the
distribution. Attacks on md5sum have been getting better over the last 2 years.
While md5sum is not broken, I think its time to consider migrating to sha256sum
everywhere in the distribution.
Hurray. We have been told that computer systems that are covered by
FISMA are supposed to use a minimum of SHA-256 when doing baselines of
systems. Now to get a baseline tool that uses this AND is prelink
aware.
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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator