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Re:Single-block collision for MD5 by getsat on Sunday January 29, 2012 @01:50PM (#3525811)
Or low end consumer GPUs which can do over half a billion hashes/sec.
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Re:Single-block collision for MD5 by LearnYouALisp on Monday January 30, 2012 @12:20AM (#3527620)
Not that low-end, right? I think the cheapest "good" one was probably over $100, when I read about "Bitcoin mining" perhaps month or so ago.
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Re:Single-block collision for MD5 by getsat on Monday January 30, 2012 @02:13AM (#3527808)
$100 is pretty low end for a GPU.

MD5 is many times faster than SHA256, too.

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Re:Single-block collision for MD5 by rmc on Monday January 30, 2012 @04:45AM (#3528067)
$100 is low end. It's easily affordable for consumer purchase. You no longer need to be the NSA with a budget of $1,000,000 to do this.
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