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Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P
From: Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:39:56 -0400
At 04:12 PM 30/08/2004, Dan Hollis wrote:
yep md5 made the news recently because it's been cracked: http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22-5314533.html http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_08.html#001055
Thats a misleading over simplification. A collision being found implies something different than "its cracked." A weakness that was theorized sometime ago has been demonstrated in practice. Finding collisions and altering files in a useful way to produce a duplicate hash are different things. There are FAR bigger security concerns than this one right now IMHO.
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!
---Mike---Mike
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- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Jeff Wheeler (Aug 30)
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- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Petri Helenius (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Dan Hollis (Aug 30)
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- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P james edwards (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Dan Hollis (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P james edwards (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Mike Tancsa (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Scott Call (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Mike Tancsa (Aug 30)
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- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Fred Baker (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Sean Donelan (Aug 30)
- Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P Jeff Wheeler (Aug 30)
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