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Comment by ryan-c

What you describe there would be a preimage attack[0], not a collision attack. There is no publicly known practical[1] preimage attack on MD5 at this time.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimage_attack

1. 2^123.4 complexity is not practical

parent ryan-c 11 years ago

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