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Re: MD5 completely broken!



"David F. Ogren" <[email protected]> writes:
> P.S. But imagine if it was true! MD5 would become the ultimate compression
> algorithm. Any message could be reduced to a 128 bit archive.

The following is true. There used to be company in Silicon Vallye that marketed
compression software guaranteed to reduce any file to no more than 128K, no
matter how large the input. That side worked. The decompression side didn't.

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<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps