[41854] in Cypherpunks
Re: 50 attacks... [NOISE]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Fri Oct 20 08:53:45 1995
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 05:31:51 -0700
From: tomw@orac.engr.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: fc@all.net's message of Thu, 19 Oct 1995 15:38:55 GMT
Reply-To: tomw@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
In article <DGpCsv.9r5@sgi.sgi.com>, fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen) writes:
> And how secure is the hash? It it possible to create values that will
> hash to each prime (or something else that does the job)? Is the hash
> something we can figure a way to precompute using massively parallel
> processing so that we can then provide a set of codes which will produce
> the desired results? (etc.)
Perhaps you should consider learning something about cryptography before
you cast aspersions on someone else's cryptographic protocols.
To date, MD5 appears to be a secure hash. If you manage to find a way
to reverse it, please let us all know.
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