Re:Hash collisions and exploitations – Instant MD5 collision
by charcircuit on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:02PM
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That is "a" definition and that definition doesn't apply to the way the other commenter used broken.
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Re:Hash collisions and exploitations – Instant MD5 collision
by dingosity on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:34AM
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That is the definition for hash functions. The other commenter was, not to put too fine a point on it, wrong. From Schneier's Self-Study Course in Block-Cipher Cryptanalysis:
"Breaking a cipher simply means finding a weakness in the cipher that can be exploited with a complexity less than brute-force."
But please go on about how you know more than Schneier.
Re:Hash collisions and exploitations – Instant MD5 collision
by prvit on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @07:55AM
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You're disregarding the context of those words.
Schneier is illustrating the gap between the academic and practical meanings of "broken".