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4th April 2008 - Link Blog

Hash Collisions (The Poisoned Message Attack). Demonstrates the MD5 weakness by providing two deliberately engineered PostScript documents with the same MD5 hash but radically different rendered output.

Posted 4th April 2008 at 7:24 pm

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