From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:56:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] adding support for md5
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608181255060.28360@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <44E59BF6.2070909@sinister.cz>

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Trekie wrote:

> 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).

SHA1 has been broken (collisions have been found):

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html

Ciao,
Dscho