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Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:48:00PM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote:| On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Gandalf The White wrote:| | >What I am worried about is the integrity of MD5 hashed passwords.  This| | >It does not matter that I don't know the correct password, I have a | >password| >that collides into the correct hash.  I can log into the system with my| >generated password.| | Can't we just truncate the password to 8 characters like in the old days| before doing the MD5 hash? It will greatly reduce the chance of a collision.| In fact, I am not even sure my systems don't do this already.Just what I want!  8 character passwords on *your* systems.  ;)Adam

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• • • • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayDragos Ruiu (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayDavid F. Skoll (Dec 08)
    • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayJoel Maslak (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedaySteve Friedl (Dec 08)
    • RE: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayDavid Schwartz (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayGandalf The White (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayKeith Oxenrider (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayPaul Wouters (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayDan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayPaul Wouters (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayAdam Shostack (Dec 09)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedaySolar Designer (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayDan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayPavel Kankovsky (Dec 09)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedaySolar Designer (Dec 13)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayGeorge Georgalis (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayDan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
    • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful SomedayRuth A. Kramer (Dec 08)
  • MD5 To Be Considered Harmful TodayPavel Machek (Dec 08)
    • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful TodayDan Kaminsky (Dec 08)
      • Re: MD5 To Be Considered Harmful TodayPavel Machek (Dec 08)
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