"BOB RADAR BOB" spelled both forward and backward.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
BTW. Thanks to all who replied to my LDAP integration
question a few weeks ago. I found the mod_ssl patch
using openLDAP was a good example. This list is an
invaluable asset to all of us users of openSSL.
Pat
Lewis McCarthy wrote:
>
> Hi Alicia,
>
> > A number of months ago, I came across a website that had illustrated
> > a MD5 weakness by providing two different pieces of readable English
> > plaintext, with one or more words changed from the other, that had
> > the exact same MD5 hash.
>
> As far as I know, no-one has published any collisions for the
> full MD5. Hans Dobbertin published a collision for the compression
> function of MD5, relying upon a specially chosen IV rather than
> the one specified by MD5.
>
> I would guess you saw a collision for MD4, not MD5. As I recall
> Dobbertin had an English-language collision for MD4 in his
> "Cryptanalysis of MD4" paper at FSE and in J. Cryptology.
>
> Hope this helps
> -Lewis
>
> Lewis McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-650-694-6813
> Software Engineer Critical Path Inc. L.A.S.E.R.
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