Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday

[Paul Wouters <paul () xtdnet nl>]

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.

Paul