"MD5 Considered Harmful Today"

Yesterday (December 30, 2008) was published a very interesting paper called “MD5 Considered Harmful Today – Creating a Rogue CA Certificate”, authored by Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens,Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik and Benne de Weger.
This paper describe the usage of collisions on the MD5 hash function to forger a intermediate CA [...]

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"Historically Bad Ideas"

An interesting track at QCon London 2009, named "Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake", by Sir Tony Hoare.
Update: the video is available at http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare

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