Difficulty of finding another input string that hashes to the same value as a given string
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Is a second preimage attack on MD5 feasible?
What's the practical status of MD5 w.r.t. second-preimage?
Integrity of a piece of data is protected by an MD5 hash, itself assumed genuine. The data (and thus the hash) is known to the adversary. ...
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reverse of md5sum
This might be out of ignorance, I apologize, but how complex of a problem might it be to generate a file of size N whose md5sum is X?
For example,
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