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Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday
From: Paul Wouters <paul () xtdnet nl>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:48:00 +0100 (MET)
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Gandalf The White wrote:
What I am worried about is the integrity of MD5 hashed passwords. This
It does not matter that I don't know the correct password, I have a password that collides into the correct hash. I can log into the system with my generated password.
Can't we just truncate the password to 8 characters like in the old days before doing the MD5 hash? It will greatly reduce the chance of a collision. In fact, I am not even sure my systems don't do this already. Paul
Current thread:
- MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Dan Kaminsky (Dec 07)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Gandalf The White (Dec 07)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Tim (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Dragos Ruiu (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday David F. Skoll (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Joel Maslak (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Steve Friedl (Dec 08)
- RE: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday David Schwartz (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Gandalf The White (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Keith Oxenrider (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Paul Wouters (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Dan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Paul Wouters (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Adam Shostack (Dec 09)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Tim (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Solar Designer (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Dan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Pavel Kankovsky (Dec 09)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Solar Designer (Dec 13)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Gandalf The White (Dec 07)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday George Georgalis (Dec 08)
- Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday Dan Kaminsky (Dec 08)