I just read a news article regarding a demonstration on a modified method of attack against a reduced variant of the SHA-1 hash algorithm.
My suggestion, if you need more security, then start to use SHA-256 or even SHA-512. For normal usage, you can still use SHA-1 but may be not for a long time.
You can [...]
Archive for August, 2006
SHA-1 Under Pressure
Posted in Crypto on August 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Creating Snort-Inline RPM in OpenSUSE 10.1
Posted in hacks on August 16, 2006 | No Comments »
I couldn’t install snort-inline, because it needs libnet 1.0.2a. In my system I have already installed libnet 1.1.0 required by dsniff-2.4.0. This silly problem made me crazy for several days.
Finally I got an enlightenment.
First, make sure you’ve installed iptables-devel package.
To resolve this problem, I downgraded dsniff to dsniff-2.3-1.guru.suse100(http://rpm.pbone.net) and removed libnet 1.1.0.
# rpm -e dsniff-2.4.0# [...]
Nessus 3.03 in OpenSUSE 10.1
Posted in hacks on August 16, 2006 | No Comments »
Several days ago, I installed Nessus on my machine (OpenSUSE 10.1). From the website, I didn’t find Nessus package for my machine, instead I downloaded packages for SUSE 10.
The installation was a breeze :
# rpm -Uvh Nessus-3.0.3-suse10.0.i586.rpmPreparing… ########################################### [100%] [...]
Developing Crypto Code in Python
Posted in python on August 15, 2006 | No Comments »
I am currently doing a research on how to develop crypto code in Python programming language.
Based on my research, there are several crypto libraries that’s suitable for my purpose. They are Python Cryptography Toolkit and ezPyCrypto as my main libraries.
Python Cryptography Toolkit will be the low-level crypto library, while ezPyCrypto will act as a high-level [...]
