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I had a recent conversation with a McAfee engineer regarding the use of MD5 in the whitelisting system. If it has "seen" an executable before, it assumes it cle
by technion 11y ago
I had a recent conversation with a McAfee engineer regarding the use of MD5 in the whitelisting system. If it has "seen" an executable before, it assumes it clean and doesn't scan it, based on a hash.
He absolutely promised me that:
* No stronger hash exists
* MD5 collisions are literally impossible
I pointed him to a paper his own research department released, referring to the Flame malware utilising an MD5 collision, and he informed me he had previously looked at it, and it was a "typo" that he would get fixed.
This is a senior developer responsible for many of the design decisions in the product. It's frightening.