If you are happy with infinite answers, I guess that is Ok.  In practice, 
since you would probably wouldn't expect numbers (or strings) infinetly 
long, assuming that you just have N possible initial values, you would have 
N/3 possible answers.

I thought the question was about getting one answer.


"Greg Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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On 4/21/05, Satyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I tell you that dividing a certain number by three gives you a 
> remainder
> of 2, would you be able to guess the first number?

Yes.  5, 8, 11, 14, etc.

> Same thing with MD5, it
> is just one way, it can't be reversed.

MD5 collisions were found last year:
http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/md5/MD5_collisions.pdf

Just a matter of time/cpu power.


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Greg Donald
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