RE: MD5 math question

["Jeff Robertson" <jeff.robertson () digitalinsight com>]

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Without knowing the correct password there is no way of 
> knowing that the 
> collision isn't it, and from a practical point of view it 
> doesn't matter 
> in the slightest.

It matters if the purpose of the "cracking" isn't to allow an attacker
to log into the system, but to recover lost passwords for legitimate
purposes. No one needs to tell me this is a bad idea, I was just looking
to find out how bad it is in this particular regard.

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