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Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:23:32 -0500
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
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- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday, (continued)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Dragos Ruiu (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday David F. Skoll (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Joel Maslak (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Steve Friedl (Dec 08)
- RE: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday David Schwartz (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Gandalf The White (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Keith Oxenrider (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Paul Wouters (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Dan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Paul Wouters (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Adam Shostack (Dec 09)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Solar Designer (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Dan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Pavel Kankovsky (Dec 09)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Solar Designer (Dec 13)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday George Georgalis (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Dan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Today Dan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Today Pavel Machek (Dec 08)