Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 11:38:07 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/random and /dev/urandom Message-ID: <20030512083807.GL73391@netch.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <3117.1052695028@critter.freebsd.dk.lucky.freebsd.bugs> References: <3EBED741.9050000@bcgreen.com> <3117.1052695028@critter.freebsd.dk.lucky.freebsd.bugs>
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Sun, May 11, 2003 at 23:29:32, phk wrote about "Re: /dev/random and /dev/urandom": > There is one current concern with MD5: over-ratio of collisions. > > What this means is that it may be a bit too easy to find a > MD5 input which generates a given MD5 output. Sorry, I might forget cryptography news for a few last years. Do you say there is _real_ example of two different data streams producing identical MD5 output _of its full length_? Please show an URL if things are already on this way... -netch-
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