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Why are MD5 collisions dangerous?

I understand that the MD5 algorithm isn't collision resistant, and that collisions between data of arbitrary size can be found with more efficient methods than brute-forcing. However, I have read ...
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Does the md5 (or any hash for that matter) of a string include the null terminator?

Does the md5 (or any hash for that matter) of a string include the null terminator in its calculations? That is does the hash of a string equal the hash of the sequence of bytes that represents the ...
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Truncating the output of SHA256 to 128 bits

suppose we need/prefer 128 bit hash output. for example to generate a 128 bit encryption key or, in other applications (e.g. file integrity verifications), to consume less storage space. i don't know ...
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Is Using MD5 Sufficient Reason to Reject This Payment Processor?

I'm evaluating a credit card processor[1], and I noticed they are using MD5 as part of a salted hash algorithm to protect a secret key. Since I know MD5 is generally considered broken, this feels like ...
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what does GUID have that a whirlpool, md5 or sha2 hash dont

I'm trying to understand the use of GUID and what has always left me wondering is what's so special about them that I should consider using them instead of rolling my own type of unique id. In other ...
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NTLMv2 resistance to bruteforcing

I have a question regarding NTLMv2 resistance to password bruteforcing. I know that some modern graphic processors (like Radeon 6990) are able to calculate billions hashes per second and crack NTLM ...
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Why does some popular software still use md5?

Nowadays no one dares to defend md5 for any use, and of course they should not! However, much popular software still uses md5 in applications such as password hashing (although it's not simple/plain ...
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Creating a rainbow table with predefined text

I need to extract a password from a hash. This hash was generated by prepending and appending two different predefined strings to the password: Hash(PredefinedString1+Password+PredefinedString2) ...
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Is using the md5 hashing algorithm as method for authorization in an HTTP POST request unsafe?

I am creating a page on a website that will show a user some authorized information from another website, and that website uses a combination of the user's user-number and a secret passphrase hashed ...
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How can I extract the MD5 hash of a password protected MS Office Word 2000 document?

AFAIK, the compound file format identifier is D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1, which is located in the offset 0 of the header, which has a length of exactly 512 bytes. However that is not enough to get the ...
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Why is it necessary to match the checksum of a download with another file provided by the same server? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Does hashing a file from an unsigned website give a false sense of security? On many servers providing files for download, there is a file on which checksums are ...
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Tool for generating MD4 collisions

There are a lot of research papers available online that discuss vulnerabilities of MD4 algorithm, but I couldn't find any implementation of these. Uptill now I have used tools like John the Ripper ...
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Password Salts and Randomness

Alright, so I understand that users are the kind of beasts who like to use one password and make it short and easy to remember (like "doggies"). If I understand correctly, that's one reason we use ...
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Are SIP REGISTER transactions w/ HTTP Digest subject to replay attacks?

It is my understanding that the authentication during a SIP registration is done through some kind of an MD5 hashing algorithm known as HTTP Digest, and doing a tcpdump of the actual traffic I've ...
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Antivirus Engine based MD5 or SHA1 hash?

I'm trying to understand more about MD5 and SHA1 hashes algorithms and their behavior in serious security software(found this but not helped me more). Why does ClamAV use additional scanning ...
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Key stretching an hash

if I implement an function which hashes the first half of my password with MD5 and the second half with SHA2 and MD5. Is there a security issue when I put these two hashes together to a 64 character ...
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Replacing weak SSH fingerprint algorithms

Even though MD5 has been broken for years and its vulnerabilities have been used to create real-world rogue X.509 CAs and other horrible things, OpenSSH and PuTTY still use MD5 as the default public ...
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Finding pre-image of MD5 hash [closed]

I have the following requirement for hashing using MD5. H(A,B,C,X); Where values A,B & C are given. However X is not given. I would like to find out what value of X would give a hash beginning ...
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MD5 collision attacks: are they relevant in password hashing?

DISCLAIMER: This is not an endorsement of MD5 as a password hashing function. I know about parallelization, GPUs, and dedicated password hashing functions like bcrypt and scrypt. With that out of ...
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create a variants of MD5

I have also asked similar q here : To create a variants of MD5, I made following changes : MD5 uses a non-linear sin(i)* pow(2,32) ----> i plane to use cos(i)*pow(2,32) Instead ...
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Preventing dictionary attacks against hashed passwords [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to securely hash passwords? I have a website and on that website I use SHA-256 and salt my user's passwords. What I'm doing right now is padding each letter of the ...
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Why do most hashing functions produce hashes that have characters a-f 0-9?

This is something I never understood about hashing functions. I know that algorithms like whirlpool and blowfish both produce outputs that don't follow this pattern, but why is it that most do? Is ...
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Program binaries or files with same MD5 hash

I'm looking for 2 different program binaries or 2 different files with the same MD5 hash to prove its weakness and the collisions in the algorithm.
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Is MD5 considered insecure?

After all these articles circulating online about md5 exploits, I am considering switching to another hash algorithm. As far as I know it's always been the algorithm of choice among numerous DBAs. Is ...
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Is SHA1 better than md5 only because it generates a hash of 160 bits?

It is well known that SHA1 is recommended more than md5 for hashing since md5 is practically broken as lot of collisions have been found. With the birthday attack, it is possible to get a collision ...
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Please tell me two strings which have the same MD5 hash value

Yes, I know MD5 is weak and should not be used. To make a prove of concept I need two strings with the same MD5 value but all I can find is binary. Like this nice example. Works fine as binary but ...
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Is there an index of all md5 collisions?

I am about to build a caching system based on md5 to generate file names out of lists of natural numbers. The inputs would be groups like: 1,18,94,100,266,1854. I know there are some collisions in ...
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Are online hash calculators dangerous?

I was about to use an online MD5 checksum calculator when I realized that my result could be added to a database. This is significant because the string I was going to type in was my bank password. ...
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Is AES slower to encrypt than MD5?

Is this the right interperation of this diagram: http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html AES/CCM MiB/Second:61 Cycles Per Byte:28.6 MD5 MiB/Second:255 Cycles Per Byte:6.8 And does that ...
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Why do people still use/recommend MD5 if it is cracked since 1996?

It's still commonly recommended way of hashing passwords, even if it's insecurity had been proven in 1996 Therefore we suggest that in the future MD5 should no longer be implemented in ...