On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:48:57PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, David Meybohm wrote: > > >But doesn't this require assuming the distribution of MD5 is uniform, > >and don't the papers finding collisions in less show it's not? So, your > >birthday-argument for calculating the probability wouldn't apply, because > >it rests on the assumption MD5 is uniform, and it isn't. > > No, the collision papers don't show this at all.
I didn't mean they showed it directly. I meant by finding collisions in MD5 quickly, MD5 would have to have some non-uniformity. But that's nevertheless wrong because uniformness and collision finding ability aren't related. Sorry to have wasted everyone's time. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
