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Distcomp project to find MD5 collisions

Matt sez, “This site’s purpose is to raise awareness of MD5’s prevalence in most applications of cryptography (SSL, digital signatures, IDS software) and it’s inherent weaknesses. MD5CRK is a distributed computing project that seeks to find a collision in the MD5 hash algorithm — a property that hash algorithms are not supposed to have. The part of this project that has proved controversial is the (optional) use of an applet-based client. You put the applet on your site and your visitors contribute CPU cycles whether they notice or not.”

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(Thanks, Matt!)

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