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Re:Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep by gkoz on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:40PM (#9693479)
Did breaking MD5 require a computer the size of the universe 20 years ago?
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Re:Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep by mikeash on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:01PM (#9693639)
It was thought to, which is why it became so popular. It turned out to be wrong.
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Re:Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep by astrodust on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:18PM (#9693767)
Not really. It was cracked by a distributed network of ordinary computers were people volunteered CPU time.
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Re:Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep by pbsd on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:44PM (#9694418)
MD5's compression function was already broken 20 years ago: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~bsy/dobbertin.ps
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