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Comment by kchamplewski

> it's trivial to generate text that could match any given hash

Source on this?

Wikipedia states what I have heard before which is that MD5 collision attacks are pretty trivial now, but carrying out a preimage attack as you describe remains theoretical at this time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5

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