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Re: MD5 collisions in one minute
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Max)
Sat Mar 18 16:08:34 2006
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:39:11 -0800
From: Max <maxale@gmail.com>
To: "Weger, B.M.M. de" <b.m.m.d.weger@tue.nl>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 3/17/06, Weger, B.M.M. de <b.m.m.d.weger@tue.nl> wrote:
> You might be interested in knowing that my MSc student
> Marc Stevens has found a considerable speedup of MD5
> collision generation. His improvements of Wang's method
> enables one to make MD5 collisions typically in one
> minute on a PC; sometimes it takes a few minutes, and
> sometimes only a few seconds.
> His paper (shortly to appear on the Cryptology ePrint
> Archive) can be found on http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/,
> where we've also made his software available (source code
> and a Win32 executable).
Thanks for interesting info!
btw, do you aware of another MD5 Collisions generating software
(requiring ~45 minutes per collision) available at
http://www.stachliu.com/collisions.html
I did not find any references to it in Marc's website/paper.
Max
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