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| Subject: | Re: MD5 Collisions and Evidence Integrity |
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| Date: | Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:56:49 +0000 (GMT) |
Hi Rob, In most of the recent forensics studies I've seen presented, MD5 was still used as sole hashing algorithm to prove integrity of the collected evidence. It's still the only supported hashing method by a number of popular forensic investigation tools. In some cases, forensic analysts have moved from single hashing to mass hashing, using multiple algorithms such as SHA-1 and MD5 together. Tools are available which do this automatically, but it's not difficult to script either. It allows evidence integrity to survive technical advances more efficiently. I have not yet heard of evidence being rejected in a court case due to the use of MD5. However, it is reasonable to assume that judicial criticism is not very far away now technical evidence and examples are available. Cheers, Maarten -- Maarten Van Horenbeeck, GCIA <maarten@daemon.be> http://www.daemon.be/maarten ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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