Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Today

[Pavel Machek <pavel () ucw cz>]

Hi!

> > :~/misc/md5$ cat msg1
> > I agree to sell you my horse ^Fita^, its saddle and harness for price   
> > 14000 dollars. Signed Bara
> Except you can't do this, since the appended data needs to be identical 
> between the two files.  That's why I used the encrypted payload -- it 
> ties the semantic meaning of the embedded commands to posession of 
> vec1's series of bits, which is of course what a cipher is meant to do.
>
> Your payloads differ but the above line is incorrect.  Your actual 
> appended files:
>
> $ cat msg1
> [terminal garbage]I agree to sell you my horse ^Fita^, its saddle and 
> harness for price   1 000 dollars. Signed Bara
>
> $ cat msg2
> [slightly different terminal garbage]I agree to sell you my horse 
> ^Fita^, its saddle and harness for price   1 000 dollars. Signed Bara

Actually, no, it is not. Try catting it on linux console. It takes
the garbage, overwrites it with ^Hs, then writes ... "its saddle and
harness for price   1", then shifts cursor right (over 4 or `,
depending on first block), then continues with "000 dollars".

My trick does *not* work in Gnome Terminal (I've just verified
it). You need actuall linux console, press ctrl-alt-F1 on most distros
to get to one... but if you tell me what terminal you use, I can
probably create terminal sequence that works there...
                                                                Pavel
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