On 6/25/06, Steve G <linux_4ever@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I just wanted everyone to understand the significance of this announcement: >coreutils-5.96-4 >---------------- >* Sun Jun 25 2006 Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
