How about a password hash? Wouldn=B4t those collisions enable the criation= of a different password with the same hash? -- //| //|| // | // || -//--//---|| ARIO LOBO // // || --------------------------------- [email protected] http://www.ipad.com.br On 18 Aug 2004 at 14:29, Peter C. Lai wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:08:12PM +0300, Claudiu wrote: > > hello, > > > > please explain what do you mean by "reverse the hash". Is this the > > recreation of the originial message from its hash ? > > The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is that such is only= one > specific case. The general case is that the digest should not reveal any= > information about the original message. > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]= rg" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"