On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:44:53PM +0200, Danny De Cock wrote: > it is true that collisions have been found in md5 (and a lot of other hash > functions of that `family', cfr. the links you mention).
Collisions have been found? Collisions were always.
Every hashing algorithm makes collisions... that's just natural.
They found way to generate two input values that makes the same hash.
That's still long way before they can generate input having hash of another
input.
regards
fEnIo
ps. could you please stop toppost?
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