It seems that people are talking more and more about these hash-reversers that are known to screw up copywrited material in p2p systems and whatnot. Also talking about setting up viruses and the like with a bunch of binary data that causes it to md5-hash to the same program.
What I find most amusing about it is that all it really takes is some second hash function to also be compared to ensure the right file is being downloaded. If you thought it was tough to reverse-engineer a single hash function, what about two concurrent ones?
They seriously can't win.
Posted by ebbomega at April 19, 2005 05:45 PM