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Re: Rumor: DSS Broken?
At 9:41 PM -0400 5/18/96, Bill Stewart wrote:
> MD5 is at least weakened, maybe broken; there's an abstract by Hans Dobbertin
> that says something about generating collisions, and gives an example
> (though the abstract doesn't say how general the method is.)
That's what I get for not reading the DSS stuff when it came out. I'd heard
lots about the MD5 stuff, but I didn't put the two together.
It also looks like I'm behind in my reading. Time to buy another edition
of Applied Cryptography...
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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