Comments on: Faster MD5 collisions https://grey-panther.net/2008/01/faster-md5-collisions.html Just another WordPress site Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Cd-MaN https://grey-panther.net/2008/01/faster-md5-collisions.html#comment-753 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:30:17 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=794#comment-753 One reason why people use MD5 is backwards compatibility. Many communications use MD5 to identify a particular piece of data (take a look at any malware related posting or VirusTotal for that matter).

An other reason is premature optimization: some people still think that the fact that MD5 is a little faster to compute and requires a little less storage space than SHA-256 for example is relevant.

]]> By: kurt wismer https://grey-panther.net/2008/01/faster-md5-collisions.html#comment-755 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:35:24 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=794#comment-755 i kinda don’t understand why people keep looking at md5… as i understood it, use of md5 in new systems has been deprecated since 1995…

i recall a pre-2000 post to sci.crypt detailing an example of 2 files that differed by 1 bit but gave the same md5 value – i believe it was referred to as a pseudo-collision…

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