On 4/22/05, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, April 21, 2005 10:28 am, Ryan A said: > > Interesting reading, even though most of it went over my head :-) > > There ar'nt any tools freely available to the average joe to decypher a > > md5 > > hash though...right? > > No, there aren't. > > And even the collisions found don't really mean much in the grand scheme > of things, from what I've read.
http://www.cits.rub.de/MD5Collisions/ <snip> Technical Background: How did you do it? Based on [WY05], we implemented an attack to find random collisions for the MD5 compression function. It took just a few hours on a customary PC. </snip> -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
