Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:27:26 -0300 From: mario.lobo@ipad.com.br To: "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.net> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Report of collision-generation with MD5 Message-ID: <4123836E.9751.1DE28B5@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040818182957.GK346@cowbert.net> References: <41239B0C.1000703@rdslink.ro>
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How about a password hash? Wouldn=B4t those collisions enable the criation= of a different password with the same hash? -- //| //|| // | // || -//--//---|| ARIO LOBO // // || --------------------------------- mario.lobo@ipad.com.br http://www.ipad.com.br On 18 Aug 2004 at 14:29, Peter C. Lai wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg"
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