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[Andrew Huntwork]

while it's true that there are multiple different bitstrings with the 
same md5 sum, i can say with great confidence that you will never find 2 
different strings with the same md5 sum and neither has any password 
cracker.  Password crackers really do just find the original password. 
The odds of finding such a pair are like 2^64 I guess, and I hear 
someone, maybe RSA, will give you quite a bit of money if you show them 
such a pair.  There are definitely no such pairs using strings the 
length of usual passwords.

Basically, you can assume that if the md5sums of 2 strings are equal, 
then the strings are equal.  A lot of other programs and systems do.

Chris Mathis wrote:
> though there can be 2 md5 sums that are the same other wise people would
> not be able to "crack" a password that has been md5sumed, and the
> password they get might be a totally different password than the
> original...
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 10:00, Michael Stenner wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:47:13AM -0700, elemint at theriver.com wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks Paul,
>>>
>>>      I have been 5d5 summing the iso not the zip file that explains a
>>>lot, I was like it is not even close.
>>
>>Well, just for the record, md5 sums should NEVER be "close".  If you
>>change 1 bit in a gigabyte of data, the md5 sum will look completely
>>different.
>>
>>					-Michael
> 
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