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Re: MD5 Collision, Visualised

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun Aug 28 17:21:42 2005

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:10:56 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <4311AEBF.3040500@algroup.co.uk>, Ben Laurie writes:
> 
>>I wrote some code to show the internal state of MD5 during a collision...
>>
>>http://www.shmoo.com/md5-collision.html
>>
> 
> 
> Very nice, though you need to give a scale of rounds -- how many 
> horizontal lines per round?  

1 line is 1 round. There are 64 rounds per block and 2 message blocks, 
plus a block of padding. That is, 192 rounds.

Cheers,

Ben.

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