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You can rent Amazon time and create an md5 collision for less money than people spend going to a movie. Restating the issue as "a perfect hash is perfect" may
by IncRnd 10y ago
You can rent Amazon time and create an md5 collision for less money than people spend going to a movie. Restating the issue as "a perfect hash is perfect" may be correct in a limited sense, but it is also highly misleading.
64 bits of ideal security is about half the industry accepted security strength in bits for a hash function.