[fitsbits] Hash Functions (MD5 is very obsolete)

[Thierry Forveille]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:
> Apologies if you see this more than once.
>
> FYI.  A reminder that MD5 has been obsolete for several years.  So
> obsolete that even the U.S. federal government now regards its
> successor as similarly obsolete :-)
>
Is anyone on the list aware of uses of the MD5 checksum in FITS
beyond protection against accidental bitflips from bad hardware?

Just trying to evaluate the urgency of a change...