Interesting reading, even though most of it went over my head :-) There ar'nt any tools freely available to the average joe to decypher a md5 hash though...right? Cheers, -Ryan On 4/21/2005 6:34:45 PM, Greg Donald (destiney@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 4/21/05, Satyam <satyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If I tell you that dividing a certain number by three gives you a > remainder > > > of 2, would you be able to guess the first number? > > > > Yes. 5, 8, 11, 14, etc. > > > > > Same thing with MD5, it > > > is just one way, it can't be reversed. > > MD5 collisions were found last year: > http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/md5/MD5_collisions.pdf > > Just a matter of time/cpu power. > > > -- > Greg Donald > Zend Certified Engineer > http://destiney.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.1 - Release Date: 4/20/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
