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GPGPU MD5 collision search shown at Black Hat

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sun Aug 2 13:07:01 2009

To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:03:59 -0400


An implementation of MD5 collision searching done on GPUs instead of
ordinary CPUs -- substantially faster searches with fewer processors.

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/BEVAND/BHUSA09-Bevand-MD5-PAPER.pdf

I imagine that if anyone really cared to generate such things really
quickly, custom hardware would be fastest of all.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com

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