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Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts by hawkice on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @09:31PM (#13181873)
Yes, because MD5 digests are much shorter than 32 characters, even if it's just ascii, so by the pidgeonhole principle there must be. If you're asking if there are _known_ collisions between two messages with less than 32 printable ascii characters -- the answer is likely yes, but there are not known to me and likely not publicly known at all yet.
Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 15, 2016 @07:48AM (#13184205)
I thought md5 were 32 characters. But you're right every md5 hash would be in that space, so there must be collisions.