1996-07-01 - Re: rsync and md4

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Message Hash: 75929b51f5946e3623edc7f6554a7e489e79b7f942bd9ef337114426c2d9c84a
Message ID: <199606301942.PAA18888@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199606301849.LAA23313@netcom18.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-07-01 07:46:41 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:46:41 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:46:41 +0800
To: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Subject: Re: rsync and md4
In-Reply-To: <199606301849.LAA23313@netcom18.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <199606301942.PAA18888@jekyll.piermont.com>
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Mike Duvos writes:
> Perry writes:
> 
> > I'm afraid you are totally wrong here. MD4 has been completely
> > broken. I wouldn't trust it for anything. In fact, MD5 is no longer
> > trustworthy, either -- it was broken recently. Stick to SHA.
> 
> Has MD5 been broken again?  Or are you referring to that little
> collision problem which is unlikely to affect the security of the
> typical real life application?

I'm not refering to the old pseudocollision problem in the compression
from over a year back. A couple of months ago a real break was made as
I recall. It wasn't perfect but it was enough.

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• 1996-07-01 (Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:47:27 +0800) - Re: rsync and md4 - “David F. Ogren” <ogren@cris.com>
  • 1996-06-30 (Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:01:44 +0800) - Re: rsync and md4 - Andrew Tridgell <tridge@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au>
  • 1996-07-01 (Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:47:22 +0800) - Re: rsync and md4 - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
    • 1996-07-01 (Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:47:04 +0800) - Re: rsync and md4 - mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
      • 1996-07-01 (Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:46:26 +0800) - Re: rsync and md4 - “Mark M.” <markm@voicenet.com>
      • 1996-07-01 (Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:46:41 +0800) - Re: rsync and md4 - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>