Re: [PLUG] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

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On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:36 AM, Eric Hidle wrote:
> Not really surprising given that SHA-1 is essentially the same 
> algorithm as
> MD5, which has already long been broken..

Broken how? I remember an attack on reduced-round MD5 producing some 
more frequent collisions and also an attack on a modified MD5, but 
never one on full MD5. Can you cite your sources for this statement?

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