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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
Cc: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>,
	Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Redundancy eliminating file systems, breaking MD5, donating money to OSDL
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:12:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122001259.GA300@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040120192114.GA30755@citd.de>

Hi!

> There is one fundemental braino in the discussion.
> 
> Only HALF the bits are for preventing "accidental" collisions. (The
> "birthday" thing). The rest is for preventing to "brute force" an input
> that produces the same MD5.(*)
> 
> So MD5 has only 2**64 Bits against accidental collsions
> Btw. I already had (a/the) MD5 collision(*2) in my life.
> 
> So you'd need SHA256 or SHA512 to be "really sure(tm)".
> 
> 
> 
> *: AFAIR i read this in the specs of SHA1 (160 bits). So i guess this is
> also true for MD5.
> 
> *2: I had a direcory of about 1,5 Million images and "md5sum"med them to
> eliminate doubles. The Log-file, at one point, had the same md5sum as
> one of the pictures.

Do you have a copy? I believe *many* people would like to see that
one.
								Pavel
-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-22  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2004-01-22  8:29           ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-01-22  2:36         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-22  8:51           ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-20 18:06 Clayton Weaver

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