Paul Wouters wrote:
Actually, this greatly increases the chance of a collision. 123456789 will collide with 123456780.On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Gandalf The White wrote:
What I am worried about is the integrity of MD5 hashed passwords. This
It does not matter that I don't know the correct password, I have a password
that collides into the correct hash. I can log into the system with my
generated password.
Can't we just truncate the password to 8 characters like in the old days
before doing the MD5 hash? It will greatly reduce the chance of a collision.
In fact, I am not even sure my systems don't do this already.
It is unlikely we'll find any ASCII readable payload that collide through Wang's search technique.
--Dan
