On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 01:32:41PM -0500, Marsh Ray wrote: > No one's yet published a preimage for MD5, a seriously broken 128 bit > function, so I doubt you'll find anyone who will express confidence that > they can find a preimage for any reasonable 384 or 512 bit hash function.
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