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Re: Windows .PWL cracker implemented as a Word Basic virus
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In article <[email protected]>,
SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <[email protected]> wrote:
> My understanding was that MD4 had been broken once, at the cost of
> much computer time.
Not *that* much computer time...
In my copy of Hans Dobbertin's paper, the abstract says
``An implementation of our
attack allows to find collisions for MD4 in less than a minute on a PC.''
As far as I know, the difficulty of inverting MD4 is still an open
problem -- but why would you want to use a broken algorithm like MD4
when you can use MD2, MD5, or SHA?
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