Re: $10M breaks MD5 in 24 days

[alex <cp@omaha.com>]

> One of the more interesting papers had a claim (with little detail,
> unfortunately) that for ten million dollars you could build a machine that
> would "break" MD5, in the sense of finding another message which would
> hash to the same as a chosen one, in 24 days.

This in itself wouldn't give an attacker much of anything would it?  I 
mean, once they discovered a message which hashed to a given value, the 
new message wouldn't be in the proper format, would it?  Wouldn't it just 
be noise, instead of text in english, crypto keys, etc.?