Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine

Re:Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine by josephcsible on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:18PM (#27852085)

"something better" was referring to the MD5 algorithm in particular. It'd be really easy today to make a fair firmware and a rigged firmware with identical MD5 hashes.

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Re:Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine by kbenson on Thursday July 15, 2021 @11:02PM (#27852646)

Ah, that's true. I was thinking less of the specific hashing used, but MD5 is problematic so that's likely what they meant. I thought they were referring to the process in general.

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