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MD5 Das Broke – They Said it Would Take Light Years
By John | December 31, 2008
And they wrong on two accounts. First off, light years is a unit of length not time and it only took 16 hours. Yesterday some bright boys over in Berlin proved them all wrong with 200 PS3’s. What are the chances? Actually it’s 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 to 1 to break 128-bit hash scheme (a.k.a. “MD5″). Here are some of the best links I have found…
MD5 collision creates rogue Certificate Authority
PlayStation Cluster Busts MD5 SSL Certs
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