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Re: md5 package summaries on ftp server (was Re: System integrity)



On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 04:28:28AM +1000, Chris Leishman wrote:
> I still haven't seen any evidence of this...

It is just "more easy" to find a faked file B which has the same hash as file
A if you allow B to be a different size fom A. 

It is even impossible to find two files with the same hash f both are
different and both shorter as the hashlength. (if it is a good hash function
that is).

Greetings
Bernd
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