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MD5 Hack Interesting, But Not Threatening
Tim Callan, 2009-01-05

A few days ago at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, researchers presented a paper in which they had used an MD5 collision attack and substantial computing firepower to create a false SSL certificate using the RapidSSL brand of SSL certificate. In the intervening time we have seen a great deal of confusion and misinformation in the press and blogosphere about the specifics of this attack and what it means to the online ecosystem.

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Serious suggestions welcome... 2009-01-15
Robert Lemos
Several people have offered criticism of this column, in particular, and of certain other aspects of the SecurityFocus site as well (blog mix and column mix are two that come to mind).

Because it's hard to have a dialog in the comments section of an unrelated column, I wanted to make sure to let ...

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