rsync and md4
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Mon Jul 1 00:46:41 PDT 1996
Mike Duvos writes:
> Perry writes:
>
> > I'm afraid you are totally wrong here. MD4 has been completely
> > broken. I wouldn't trust it for anything. In fact, MD5 is no longer
> > trustworthy, either -- it was broken recently. Stick to SHA.
>
> Has MD5 been broken again? Or are you referring to that little
> collision problem which is unlikely to affect the security of the
> typical real life application?
I'm not refering to the old pseudocollision problem in the compression
from over a year back. A couple of months ago a real break was made as
I recall. It wasn't perfect but it was enough.
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