[37665] in bugtraq
Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Thu Dec 9 12:21:52 2004
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:23:32 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>
Cc: Gandalf The White <gandalf@digital.net>, davids@webmaster.com,
Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>, BugTraq <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
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On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:48:00PM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote:
| On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Gandalf The White wrote:
|
| >What I am worried about is the integrity of MD5 hashed passwords. This
|
| >It does not matter that I don't know the correct password, I have a
| >password
| >that collides into the correct hash. I can log into the system with my
| >generated password.
|
| Can't we just truncate the password to 8 characters like in the old days
| before doing the MD5 hash? It will greatly reduce the chance of a collision.
| In fact, I am not even sure my systems don't do this already.
Just what I want! 8 character passwords on *your* systems. ;)
Adam
