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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. Misspelled surname. by Yenya · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually the author's surname is Klíma, not Klýma (Klima in ASCII).

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  2. Re:WTF? by rbarreira · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think the same as you about that matter, but the chinese researchers have already released the paper containing the full details (I think) of their method:

    http://www.infosec.sdu.edu.cn/paper/md5-attack.pdf

    I saw this link at the page linked in this /.'s article: http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/MD5_collisions.ht ml

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