From: C. Scott Ananian <cscott@cscott.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:48:57 GMT
Subject: Re: SHA1 hash safety
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504191848300.29929@cag.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050419223027.GA26100@localhost>

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, David Meybohm wrote:

> But doesn't this require assuming the distribution of MD5 is uniform,
> and don't the papers finding collisions in less show it's not? So, your
> birthday-argument for calculating the probability wouldn't apply, because
> it rests on the assumption MD5 is uniform, and it isn't.

No, the collision papers don't show this at all.
  --scott
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