[Openstack-security] [Bug 1348339] Re: Use of weak MD5 algorithm

Robert Clark 1348339 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Jul 29 07:04:03 UTC 2014


+1 to Bryan and Eric

Many enterprise customers are requesting to see our crypto audits -
there's only so many times you can explain "Yes, but, MD5 is pretty much
o.k in this context" before you start looking silly.

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Title:
  Use of weak MD5 algorithm

Status in OpenStack Security Advisories:
  Won't Fix
Status in Openstack Database (Trove):
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The file: trove/trove/guestagent/strategies/storage/swift.py line 54
  uses a weak hashing algorithm, MD5. It would be pretty simple
  hardening upgrade to use at least hashlib.SHA256.

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