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The MD5 algorithm is a popular way to create a hash — relied on to identify, retrieve and manage reference information in current CAS systems. The working assumption is that for all practical purposes every hash uniquely represents its content. The proven "hackability" of a hashing algorithm compromises that absolute certainty required for formal, compliance or regulation-driven applications, for all data stored and represented using that specific algorithm. And no algorithm can be considered forever safe — the reality is that all hashing algorithms eventually go stale, because the computers to attack them continue to get more powerful.
So proving integrity is a huge potential issue — but the worst part: there is no way out, as the hash-generated tag is used as sole identifier of the information to the outside world, and thus needs to remain unchanged. Your information is stuck in a system that can be trusted less and less every day, without remedy. In many cases, this is clearly unacceptable.
That is why Caringo has developed a solution based on four years of R&D. It offers the unique ability to change and/or upgrade the encryption algorithm without affecting the underlying data. No new tags, no unloading and reloading, no need to go offline — even for a moment. Just business as usual. Caringo's patent pending ability to dynamically scale hashing algorithms is an industry first! Caringo's Hash Authority — an integral part of the Content Integrity Seal — guarantees that your algorithms will never get stale, even as the unique identifiers remain unchanged over the life cycle of the data.
Unbreakable, 'hot-swappable' hashing has profound implications — for the first time, true long-term storage with equally long-term integrity guarantees is now possible.
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