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eriknstr on March 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: An animated GIF that shows its own MD5

>this isn't something that was supposed to be easy

Parent to the comment you are replying to said that it wasn't hard. If it's not hard then it ought to be quite easy.

kevincox on March 9, 2017 [–]

What I meant is that when md5 was designed, it was supposed to make this thing difficult.

However flaws in the design have made this easy.

eriknstr on March 9, 2017 | [–]

Ah, I see :)

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