Re: Re: reverse MD5 ???
| From: | Greg Donald | Date: | Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:22:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: reverse MD5 ??? | ||
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On 4/22/05, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
> On Thu, April 21, 2005 10:28 am, Ryan A said:
> > Interesting reading, even though most of it went over my head :-)
> > There ar'nt any tools freely available to the average joe to decypher a
> > md5
> > hash though...right?
>
> No, there aren't.
>
> And even the collisions found don't really mean much in the grand scheme
> of things, from what I've read.
http://www.cits.rub.de/MD5Collisions/
<snip>
Technical Background: How did you do it?
Based on [WY05], we implemented an attack to find random collisions
for the MD5 compression function. It took just a few hours on a
customary PC.
</snip>
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Greg Donald
Zend Certified Engineer
http://destiney.com/