Re: md5() algorithm, probabilities

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, waldschrott wrote: > > MD5 > > attack > > collision > > quite a lot of information, but nothing regarding my question, it is > said that if the pass phrase entered is long enough, the resulting MD5 > hash will be statisically random. > That does not say anything about matching hashes in relation to string > length. > I´ll assume that it generates unique hashes out of everything. :) Nope, but the probability that it happens is really low. One of the first hits found by Google was this paper, discussing various attacks against MD5: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/docs/email/pgp/pgp-attack-faq.txt (start reading at "The one-way hash") - Sascha