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diff --git a/doc/lispref/text.texi b/doc/lispref/text.texi index 7ce54f59c69..955ad6130ca 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/text.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/text.texi @@ -4710,12 +4710,12 @@ that you have an unaltered copy of that data. SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512. MD5 is the oldest of these algorithms, and is commonly used in @dfn{message digests} to check the integrity of messages transmitted over a -network. MD5 is not collision resistant (i.e., it is possible to -deliberately design different pieces of data which have the same MD5 -hash), so you should not used it for anything security-related. A -similar theoretical weakness also exists in SHA-1. Therefore, for -security-related applications you should use the other hash types, -such as SHA-2. +network. MD5 and SHA-1 are not collision resistant (i.e., it is +possible to deliberately design different pieces of data which have +the same MD5 or SHA-1 hash), so you should not use them for anything +security-related. For security-related applications you should use +the other hash types, such as SHA-2 (e.g. @code{sha256} or +@code{sha512}). @defun secure-hash-algorithms This function returns a list of symbols representing algorithms that |