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CertainKey To Pay $10,000 For MD5 Collision

Posted by timothy on from the wham dept.

jlcooke writes "CertainKey Inc. (the folks who put a $10,000 bounty on finding a collision in MD5) will award the prize Friday to Xuejia Lai, Xaioyun Wang, and Hongbo Yu of the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China. These are the same people who Broke SHA-1."

3 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. Gives a whole new meaning to... by vasqzr · · Score: 2, Funny


    HACKED BY CHINESE!

  2. Unfortunately... by jd · · Score: 3, Funny

    The serial numbers of the dollar bills used to pay the winners had a hashing collision in the bank machine, which therefore only registered the first note.

    --
    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  3. watch out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't show up, guys! They're waiting to arrest you under the DMCA!