Re: Report of collision-generation with MD5

From: Peter C. Lai (sirmoo_at_cowbert.net)
Date: 08/18/04

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To: Claudiu <dr.clau@rdslink.ro>

    On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:08:12PM +0300, Claudiu wrote:
    > hello,
    >
    > please explain what do you mean by "reverse the hash". Is this the
    > recreation of the originial message from its hash ?

    The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is that such is only one
    specific case. The general case is that the digest should not reveal any
    information about the original message.

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