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Using an MD5 hash as a password
Suppose Alice is using a password prompt that only accepts up to 32 characters for any particular password.
Memorization of long strings of random characters is not one of Alice's strengths, so she ...
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Tunnels used in md5
I'm reading a paper about finding collisions for the MD5 hash algorithm involving the concept of tunnels.
But I couldn't understand about the difference between point of verification and point of ...
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Is the last step of an iterated cryptographic hash still as resistant to preimage attacks as the original hash?
Considering a cryptographic hash, such as MD5 or SHA2, denoted by the function $H(m)$ where $m$ is an arbitrary binary string, there is a lot of material available that deals with potential weakness ...
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Implementation of Tao Xie and Denguo Feng's MD5 attack
It is well known that MD5 is completely broken today - however, to understand the theory behind the attacks I am looking for an implementation of the collision attacks described in the 2009 paper A ...
