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Re: MD5 collisions found - alternative?



On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:39:57AM +0200, Rolf Kutz wrote:
This depends on how the attack really works. If
you just need to flip a few bits in a document it
might just look like typos (think crc32). If your
document is a tarball or a .deb you might be able
to insert a lot of "garbage" to it without being
noticed.

Right, but is someone inserting garbage into a .deb really a threat? I'd
be more concerned about the insertion of malicious code...

Mike Stone



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