Tuesday, August 03, 2010

MD5 checksum is good, but not foolproof

As with anything security-related, if something is touted as tough to crack, that's taken up as a challenge. I recently stumbled on an article that not only gives examples of two sets of data with the same MD5 sum, but a method to exploit that.

http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/

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