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More MD5 Attacks Devised

Posted by Hemos on from the need-to-make-secure dept.

rbarreira writes "Bruce Schneier's blog is reporting on a new paper by Vlastimil Klýma, which summarizes a new method for finding collisions on the MD5 hash algorithm. Furthermore, the first pair of colliding X.509 Certificates has been published by a different team."

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  1. MD5 attacks by Idlechat · · Score: 2, Funny

    I totally agree with you!
    Those attacks on MD5 must be stopped! How can people be so heartless?

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  2. Re:But I use MD5... by meiao · · Score: 2, Funny

    well it is not imoral nor illegal.
    He just showed that MD5 has become weak for today's computation power (or his brain power).

    Too bad you use MD5 for your work. But at least he showed that MD5 is weak before anyone do something which could damage your work.
    And thus give you time to select another encryption/hashing method to secure your work.

    Or would you rather learn that MD5 is weak the painful way?