Re: SSH2 Encryption
peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca (2002-06-13 at 0330.28 -0300):
>
> Yes. MD5 has had some very minor breaks. It is easier to find
> hash collisions than it should be. This means that it is possible to find
> two messages that hash to the same value. You need to choose _both_
> messages, so this doesn't help you e.g. make trojan binaries that have the
> same MD5 hash as the originals.
>
MD5 generates a hash of 128 bits so the probability of finding a
collision is 1/(2^128). So it seems that it is not so easy to find such
a collision.
Of course SHA is more secure, it generates a hash of 160 bits so the
probability of finding a collision is lower than MD5.
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