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By the late nineties using both MD5 and SHA1 for "additional robustness" together in ad-hoc constructions was also en vogue. SSLv2 and SSLv3 are good examples.
by colmmacc 3y ago
By the late nineties using both MD5 and SHA1 for "additional robustness" together in ad-hoc constructions was also en vogue. SSLv2 and SSLv3 are good examples. The outputs match the size of a SHA1, but it wouldn't be that shocking if the pipeline were some form of echo "$string" | md5sum | sha1sum.
- tptacek 3y agoWhat's smart about this bounty is that these kinds of silly hashing constructions, and scalable pipelines for figuring them out through brute force, are the bread and butter of password crackers, which is practically a sport now. So you'd be optimistic that if the problem is interesting enough, somebody will work it out if there's like, a pre-MD5 hash or something.