Re:Hash collisions and exploitations – Instant MD5 collision
by pxx on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:17AM
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This is not a feasible attack. There is a large difference between how academics use "broken" and what the practical consequences are.
As Schneier writes as an introduction in the very paragraph you are trying to quote, "in academic cryptography, the rules are relaxed considerably." This is not a snub on academia; colloquial terms sometimes just mean something different than the academic definition.
As Schneier writes as an introduction in the very paragraph you are trying to quote, "in academic cryptography, the rules are relaxed considerably." This is not a snub on academia; colloquial terms sometimes just mean something different than the academic definition.