Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:24:27 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Report of collision-generation with MD5 Message-ID: <200408181724.i7IHORYl013375@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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Just got a pointer to this via ACM "TechNews Alert" for today: http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0818w.html#item2 Seems that "... French computer scientist Antoine Joux reported on Aug. 12 his discovery of a flaw in the MD5 algorithm, which is often used with digital signatures...." There's more in the article cited above. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Evidence of curmudgeonliness: becoming irritated with the usage of the word "speed" in contexts referring to quantification of network performance, as opposed to "bandwidth" or "latency."home | help
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