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Collisions for hash functions: how to exlain them to your boss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Lucks)
Thu Jun 2 18:34:36 2005
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:12:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Stefan Lucks <lucks@th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de>
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Magnus Daum and myself have generated MD5-collisons for PostScript files:
http://th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/lucks/HashCollisions/
This work is somewhat similar to the work from Mikle and Kaminsky, except
that our colliding files are not executables, but real documents.
We hope to demonstrate how serious hash function collisions should be
taken -- even for people without much technical background. And to help
you, to explain these issues
- to your boss or your management,
- to your customers,
- to your children ...
Have fun
Stefan
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Stefan Lucks Th. Informatik, Univ. Mannheim, 68131 Mannheim, Germany
e-mail: lucks@th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de
home: http://th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/lucks/
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