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All that sounds a lot of effort when the reality would be they'd just check the file in a different way than full-file md5 hashes as soon as this appeared.
by corobo 10y ago
All that sounds a lot of effort when the reality would be they'd just check the file in a different way than full-file md5 hashes as soon as this appeared.
- heartsucker 10y agoSeriously, the easier way to do this is just make a password protected zip file. Boom. Done. No extra mucking around with random bytes and whatnot. You want to share? Give the password to your friends.
- VLM 10y agoPerfect being the enemy of good enough, etc. Also its a bit unfair. Given this attack, design a perfect defense. OK here's an easy one. Oh OK well that works, but they'll just try a different attack. Well yeah, but that wasn't the initial challenge provided. Also precomputed rainbow tables aren't so funny when you have gig wide columns instead of hash wide columns. For that alone its an entertaining idea.