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From: "Clayton Weaver" <cgweav@email.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Redundancy eliminating file systems, breaking MD5, donating money to OSDL
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:06:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120180646.7874.qmail@email.com> (raw)

(re: md5 weakness)

The only document I've seen with a
rigorous demonstration of the
possibility of an md5 collision
created it by adding 0 (zero) bytes
to an input (so the colliding inputs
were not the same size in bytes).

Good luck finding a collision with
blocks that are all the same size.

Anyway, hash matching algorithms for
variable sized inputs (hashed extents,
etc) can probably get an additional several
orders of magnitude of safety by using
two hashes (md5 and sha1, for example).

What are the chances that the same two
different inputs that hash to the same
value using one of them collides in the
other, too? ("Left as an exercise for the ...")

Regards,

Clayton Weaver
<mailto: cgweav@email.com>

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             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-20 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-20 18:06 Clayton Weaver [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-16 20:22 [OT] Redundancy eliminating file systems, breaking MD5, donating money to OSDL Timothy Miller
2004-01-16 20:37 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-16 20:59   ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-17 13:15     ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-20 19:21       ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-01-21 11:46         ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-22  0:12         ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-22  8:29           ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-01-22  2:36         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-22  8:51           ` Matthias Schniedermeyer

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