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From: Florian Hars <hars@bik-gmbh.de>
To: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Computing with big numbers?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:06:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4937FFEE.9060709@bik-gmbh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FB344E04-B790-442C-AA85-F06A90F27F5E@polytechnique.org>

Alan Schmitt schrieb:
> But I don't think this applies here, as the hashes I'm
> looking at are the one used by Unison to identify file contents.

Then it is *especially* relevant, as it is quite trivial to generate
several files with  different content and the same MD5 hash, all you
need is a Playstation 3:
http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/Nostradamus/

- Florian
-- 
But our moral language is fragmented; our contemporaries reject the Kantian
hunch that choosing those things most admirable and plausible as ends in
themselves is the best practice; autonomous sources of the good are everywhere
brown and broken. Thus we have PHP. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1463


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01 12:36 Alan Schmitt
2008-12-01 12:52 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2008-12-01 14:29   ` Alan Schmitt
2008-12-01 13:47 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-12-01 14:37   ` Alan Schmitt
2008-12-04 16:06     ` Florian Hars [this message]
2008-12-04 16:40       ` David Thomas
2008-12-04 21:51       ` Martin Jambon
2008-12-05  7:07       ` Alan Schmitt

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