At 9:41 PM -0400 5/18/96, Bill Stewart wrote:

MD5 is at least weakened, maybe broken; there's an abstract by Hans Dobbertin that says something about generating collisions, and gives an example (though the abstract doesn't say how general the method is.)

That's what I get for not reading the DSS stuff when it came out. I'd heard lots about the MD5 stuff, but I didn't put the two together. It also looks like I'm behind in my reading. Time to buy another edition of Applied Cryptography... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "If they could 'just pass a few more laws', we would all be criminals." --Vinnie Moscaritolo The e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/