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From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
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Subject: Report of collision-generation with MD5
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Just got a pointer to this via ACM "TechNews Alert" for today:

http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0818w.html#item2

Seems that "... French computer scientist Antoine Joux reported on
Aug. 12 his discovery of a flaw in the MD5 algorithm, which is often
used with digital signatures...."

There's more in the article cited above.

Peace,
david
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