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Comment by kedean

The collision-resistance property that all good hashes should have (and md5 lacks) states that an attacker with an input and its hash cannot arbitrarily produce a second input with the same hash. The possibility of it happening in the wild will always exist with hashes by their finite nature, but the only way an attacker should be able to find collisions is by enumerating the input space (rainbow table generation).
parent kedean 11 years ago

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