As far as the performance improvements, I haven't observed any significant improvements but certainly their haven't been any regressions. It was already pretty snappy, so it would have been difficult to improve upon that.
> One researcher claims that the expense of carrying out the collision could be as high as $200K. There is little doubt that Flame was created by a nation state with considerable technical resources.
Somehow I doubt Linux Mint is worth that price tag. And you wouldn't use a rolling-based debian derivative for sensible data, would you ?
It's true SHA-1 costs the same as MD5 so it'd be easy to satisfy everyone though.
Come on, that md5 hash is only useful for verifying the download wasn't corrupted or incomplete. Nobody aw re of security would rely on it for anything else.
A hash of the iso wouldn't prevent the tampering of critical files up the chain.
> If you want to upgrade from Linux Mint 17 or Linux Mint 17.1, please wait for a few days while we release a new version of the Update Manager to you. In the meantime, you do not need to download or to reinstall anything. We’ll make announcements next week when this is ready.
Have to wait till next week for auto update. Gggrrrrr.
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Wut! Wut? Wut ?!
Collision attacks were successfully used in Flames. http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2012/06/14/flame...
MD5 = obsolete.
Somehow I doubt Linux Mint is worth that price tag. And you wouldn't use a rolling-based debian derivative for sensible data, would you ?
It's true SHA-1 costs the same as MD5 so it'd be easy to satisfy everyone though.
Who cares, it is not as if your secrets or money were transiting on the internet.
A hash of the iso wouldn't prevent the tampering of critical files up the chain.
Have to wait till next week for auto update. Gggrrrrr.
The `rebecca` repository lines needed to be replaced with this:
edit: fixed formatting.