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To put it in layman terms.

The MD5 collisions attack usually done by researchers: They want to generate 2 files with the same MD5 hash (they can put anything they want in these files).

This kind of attack doesn't affect passwords. The user picked one file (i.e. the password), you don't know it, you can't change it, you can't choose it.




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