megadollar

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   by megadollar 9y ago

   You're clearly somebody who wants to rely on "rules of thumb" for security. I'm arguing against the entire concept of rules of thumb and you've since argued against a strawman. Did I ever say "MD5 is ok in some
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   by megadollar 9y ago

   We cannot produce an input that produces an arbitrary given hash. Here's an easy counterexample: the all-zeroes md5sum. That's an even harder problem than the one I've claimed is entirely not solved. MD5 is still preimage and
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   by megadollar 9y ago

   That's fine. I will literally give you $10,000 if¹ you can give me a MD5 preimage attack. Take your attack vector to be that particular md5sum that you are making fun of. MD5 is not broken for the usage that you think it's broken