Traditional DES collision
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An anonymous reader writes "This is the first publicly known DES crypt() hashing algorithm collision 05/Nov/2010.
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A collision occurs when two different plaintexts encrypted produce the same hash string. It was discovered by a student James M. Hall on a single CPU thread overnight
to prove that we should move away from this hashing algorithm if not already to one that is salted, heavily iterated and has a larger keyspace such as SHA-512(Unix).
All hash functions have collisions but its because of the small keyspace on this 56-bit hash that they are found far more often."
hiH9IOyyrrl4k:cqjmide
hiH9IOyyrrl4k:ifpqgio
A collision occurs when two different plaintexts encrypted produce the same hash string. It was discovered by a student James M. Hall on a single CPU thread overnight
to prove that we should move away from this hashing algorithm if not already to one that is salted, heavily iterated and has a larger keyspace such as SHA-512(Unix).
All hash functions have collisions but its because of the small keyspace on this 56-bit hash that they are found far more often."
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