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Re: [Openvpn-users] What security implications does the recent attacks on HASH algorithms have for OpenVPN?


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] What security implications does the recent attacks on HASH algorithms have for OpenVPN?
  • From: Jean-Pierre Schwickerath <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:05:48 +0200

 
> But they do not talk directly about OpenVPN, so i am asking here:
> What security implications does the recent attacks on HASH algorithms 
> have for OpenVPN?

Isn't OpenVPN using SHA-1 and 3-DES (or blowfish) by default? 
These protocols are not affected. 

The only problem I see arises with MD5 which should not be used anyway. 


Jean-Pierre

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