From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 15:07:06 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: MD5 weaknesses
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Perry Metzger posted a note to coderpunks about
>A paper by Hans Dobbertin dated May 2 in private circulation has found
>an easy method for generating collisions (not pseudocollisions as was
>done in previous work) in the MD5 compression function. I was told
>that this was public information.

And somebody provided a URL to 
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/dobbertin.ps

The coderpunks discussion has been titled Re: Favorate flavor of hash? 
for which I suppose there are alternative interpretations :-)
#					Thanks;  Bill
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