Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
by metafunctor on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @06:56PM
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The collision generator behind that link does not implement a preimage attack (given a string X, come up with another string Y with the same MD5 hash).
Instead, it implements the much easier collision attack (come up with two strings that have the same MD5 hash).
Instead, it implements the much easier collision attack (come up with two strings that have the same MD5 hash).