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_vya7
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An animated GIF that shows its own MD5
Are MD5 hashes that predictable that you can just make a few adjustments to a binary until it's the one you want?
Filligree
on March 8, 2017
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MD5 as a cryptographic hash is thoroughly shredded, yes.
It's still fine for non-cryptographic purposes, except that it's far slower than e.g. CRC.
hueving
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That would be news if that were the case. The preimage resistance for MD5 was pretty strong last time I looked:
http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/13303/is-md5-secon...
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