[brlug-general] Crypto 2004 Conference: "collisions found in MD5"

2004-08-19 Thread John Hebert
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000664.html quotes below from URL above, see site for links: Report from Crypto 2004 Here's the summary of events from last night's work-in-progress session at the Crypto conference. [See previous entries for backstory.] (I've reordered the sequence of

example of bug using Python was Re: [brlug-general] Crypto 2004 Conference: "collisions found in MD5"

2004-08-19 Thread John Hebert
Here's a little Python script that illustrates the problem, modified from a script found on http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000663.html: MD5CollisionTest.py: import md5 a = "\xd1\x31\xdd\x02\xc5\xe6\xee\xc4\x69\x3d\x9a\x06\x98\xaf\xf9\x5c\x2f\xca\xb5\x87\x12\x46\x7e\xab\x40\x04\x58\x3e\