Report of collision-generation with MD5

Wed Aug 18 19:29:41 PDT 2004

>Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:23:49 -0700
>From: Hal Pomeranz <hal at deer-run.com>
>To: "Roy S. Rapoport" <rsr at inorganic.org>, baylisa at baylisa.org
>Subject: Re: Report of collision-generation with MD5
>Sender: owner-baylisa at baylisa.org

>I've been pondering setting up a DES hash to cleartext password web-based
>lookup service.  It'd be a cool distributed computing/database project.
>Figured I register it under "death-to-des.org" or something...

>I'm not entirely kidding about this...

Given the present political climate, I would encourage caution.  :-(

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Peace,
david
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