Comments on: U.S. mulls new digital-signature standard

After a flaw was found in a decade-old algorithm used to create and verify digital signatures in e-mail and on the Web, the U.S. government is trying to find a solution.

[jsargent]

Is this news?

Anyone knows that any hashing algorithm is not 100% fool proof. However, the idea is to ensure that the chances of finding a matching message combination is low.

[Anon-Y-mous]

Yes this is--Windows makes extensive use

of crypto, especially in IE for licences and signature keys; including SHA. So guess what... Windows is at risk for fraudulent certificates and spoofs....again. Leave it to them to be the cause for most of this since most of the internet is accessed though windows machines.

Why they didn't implement multiple layers of security and higher bit encryptions is amazing... but of course they just want your money, just like all the hackers attacking your Windows system.