[45122] in Cypherpunks
Re: Windows .PWL cracker implemented as a Word Basic virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A Wagner)
Sun Dec 10 18:33:19 1995
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 18:20:38 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: daw@quito.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David A Wagner)
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In article <95Dec10.175318edt.1732@cannon.ecf.toronto.edu>,
SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu> wrote:
> My understanding was that MD4 had been broken once, at the cost of
> much computer time.
Not *that* much computer time...
In my copy of Hans Dobbertin's paper, the abstract says
``An implementation of our
attack allows to find collisions for MD4 in less than a minute on a PC.''
As far as I know, the difficulty of inverting MD4 is still an open
problem -- but why would you want to use a broken algorithm like MD4
when you can use MD2, MD5, or SHA?
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