From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 23:49:27 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Rumor: DSS Broken?
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At 9:41 PM  -0400 5/18/96, Bill Stewart wrote:
> MD5 is at least weakened, maybe broken; there's an abstract by Hans Dobbertin
> that says something about generating collisions, and gives an example
> (though the abstract doesn't say how general the method is.)

That's what I get for not reading the DSS stuff when it came out. I'd heard
lots about the MD5 stuff, but I didn't put the two together.

It also looks like I'm behind in my reading.  Time to buy another edition
of Applied Cryptography...


Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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