MD5 completely broken!

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM dlv at bwalk.dm.com
Sun Aug 18 08:51:39 PDT 1996


"David F. Ogren" <ogren at cris.com> writes:
> P.S. But imagine if it was true! MD5 would become the ultimate compression
> algorithm. Any message could be reduced to a 128 bit archive.

The following is true. There used to be company in Silicon Vallye that marketed
compression software guaranteed to reduce any file to no more than 128K, no
matter how large the input. That side worked. The decompression side didn't.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps






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