Re: Report of collision-generation with MD5

How about a password hash? Wouldn=B4t those collisions enable the criation=
 of a different password 
with the same hash?

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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.
> 
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