From: Trekie <trekie@sinister.cz>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:52:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] adding support for md5
Message-ID: <44E59BF6.2070909@sinister.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608172259280.25827@chino.corp.google.com>

Hi,

I'd like to point out that while finding collision for SHA1 according to
the Wikipedia needs 2^63 operations and AFAIK no collision has been
found yet, finding collision for MD5 can be achieved in a minute and
less (see http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/2006/tunnels.pdf for details).

David Brodsky