Re:How I created two images with the same MD5 hash
by baddox on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @03:17AM
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While that's true, I wouldn't call the pigeonhole principle a remotely similar weakness to the chosen prefix collision attack vulnerability in MD5. The feasibility of finding a collision in MD5 has little to do with the number of pigeonholes in MD5.
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Re:How I created two images with the same MD5 hash
by kapitalx on Thursday November 06, 2014 @07:20PM
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Not at all. Not to completely repeat myself, I'm merely saying that all such hash functions will have collisions. So the fact you have collisions doesn't imply weakness as it's a fact of life. So all you're left with is to look at the feasibility of finding a collision. We're both saying the same thing IMO.