[73630] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Mon Aug 30 17:34:56 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:36:19 -0400
To: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408301404480.13619@twomix.devolution.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 05:10 PM 30/08/2004, Scott Call wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>>I recall even seeing posts about people claiming this meant original data
>>being reconstructed from the checksum! That would be truly amazing since
>>I could reconstruct a 680MB ISO from just
>>61d38fad42b4037970338636b5e72e5a. Wow!
>
>Technically, using an Infinate Monkeys approach, you could rebuild the ISO
>by generating the expentially huge quantity of all possible data and check
>them and find the one that matches the ISO.
Reminds me of Wyle E. Coyote. Instead of getting a damn shotgun and just
shooting the road runner, he gets the ACME MD5 hash-collision-o-tron to
concoct some possible but improbable scheme involving RR'....
---Mike
