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Re-read that comment, particularly the part about the difference between a collision attack and a preimage attack. MD5 is (currently) vulnerable to collisions,
by teraflop 12y ago
Re-read that comment, particularly the part about the difference between a collision attack and a preimage attack.
MD5 is (currently) vulnerable to collisions, but not to preimages. So you can find two inputs that have the same hash, but not an input that hashes to some particular value in a database.