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gkoz
on June 10, 2015
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Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep
Did breaking MD5 require a computer the size of the universe 20 years ago?
mikeash
on June 10, 2015
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It was thought to, which is why it became so popular. It turned out to be wrong.
astrodust
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Not really. It was cracked by a distributed network of ordinary computers were people volunteered CPU time.
pbsd
on June 10, 2015
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MD5's compression function was already broken 20 years ago:
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~bsy/dobbertin.ps
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