Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:29:57 -0400 From: "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.net> To: Claudiu <dr.clau@rdslink.ro> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Report of collision-generation with MD5 Message-ID: <20040818182957.GK346@cowbert.net> In-Reply-To: <41239B0C.1000703@rdslink.ro> References: <200408181724.i7IHORYl013375@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <20040818175804.GI346@cowbert.net> <41239B0C.1000703@rdslink.ro>
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:08:12PM +0300, Claudiu wrote: > hello, > > please explain what do you mean by "reverse the hash". Is this the > recreation of the originial message from its hash ? The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is that such is only one specific case. The general case is that the digest should not reveal any information about the original message.
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