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MD5 and the muck

Posted in cryptanalysis, md5, encryption, HomeGame by The Poker Nerd on the January 8th, 2009

As reported inĀ Dr. Dobb’s Journal, a brute-force attack exploiting MD5 “collisions” has been used to crack cyphertext generated by the MD5 hashing algorithm.The MD5 algorithm is used extensively in security systems like SSL, a protocol you use every time you go to a website that starts with “https://.” (more…)