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[Chris Shiflett]

--- Hans Zaunere <hans at nyphp.com> wrote:
> An interesting project would be to see if two UNIX timestamps exist that
> produce the same MD5.

Well, are you considering a UNIX timestamp to be any positive integer? :-)
If so, there are definitely collisions somewhere, because there are more
inputs than possible outputs.

I've always heard the top crypto guys saying that MD5 was weaker than
people thought; I guess they were right. Still, I wouldn't mind seeing one
of these experts comment on whether it is dangerous to be using MD5 for
passwords and such.

Chris

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