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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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Strength of Combining Hash functions [duplicate]
If I combine two hash functions, what will the impact on the strength of the resulting function.
If I combine in following way:
H1*H2 (multiply)
H1 + H2 (concat)
H1 Xor H2
H1 (H2)
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Lets say H1 ...
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finding collision for truncated SHA1 hash output
Suppose we truncate only 40 bits of sha1 hash output.hence it is insecure.how can we find two message as input which gives first 40 bits of hash as same value i.e we have to find collision for first ...
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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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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 ...
