Suggestions on Improving the Security Algorithm for Calculating Fingerprints

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Suggestions on Improving the Security Algorithm for Calculating Fingerprints #923

Closed Leopold0801 closed 8 months ago

Leopold0801 commented 8 months ago

I found that the MD5 algorithm is used to calculate the fingerprint. Why not consider the SHA-256 algorithm? SHA-256 is known to be more secure than MD5.

hierynomus commented 8 months ago

It's MD5 as it's in the standard SSH format.