Re: [OT] Redundancy eliminating file systems, breaking MD5, donating money to OSDL

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> There is one fundemental braino in the discussion.
> 
> Only HALF the bits are for preventing "accidental" collisions. (The
> "birthday" thing). The rest is for preventing to "brute force" an input
> that produces the same MD5.(*)
> 
> So MD5 has only 2**64 Bits against accidental collsions
> Btw. I already had (a/the) MD5 collision(*2) in my life.
> 
> So you'd need SHA256 or SHA512 to be "really sure(tm)".
> 
> 
> 
> *: AFAIR i read this in the specs of SHA1 (160 bits). So i guess this is
> also true for MD5.
> 
> *2: I had a direcory of about 1,5 Million images and "md5sum"med them to
> eliminate doubles. The Log-file, at one point, had the same md5sum as
> one of the pictures.

Do you have a copy? I believe *many* people would like to see that
one.
								Pavel
-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
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