Krisztian Pinter writes:

> did anyone in this world see this very rare fenomena? do we have a
> single pair of strings with the same md5 hash?

I've never heard of this ever occurring. It is theoretically possible
(indeed, it is inevitable if you have more than 2^128 strings to hash),
but in the real world it is too improbable to worry about, as a general
rule.

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Wow! Lets see them!

"Krisztian Pinter" wrote in message
news:a3fdccb.0310280436.eee0e0a@posting.google.com ...
| did anyone in this world see this very rare fenomena? do we have a
| single pair of strings with the same md5 hash?

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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Mxsmanic wrote:
>Krisztian Pinter writes:
>
>> did anyone in this world see this very rare fenomena? do we have a
>> single pair of strings with the same md5 hash?
>
>I've never heard of this ever occurring. It is theoretically possible
>(indeed, it is inevitable if you have more than 2^128 strings to hash),
>

2^64

birthday attack

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"Krisztian Pinter" wrote in message
news:a3fdccb.0310280436.eee0e0a@posting.google.com ...
> did anyone in this world see this very rare fenomena? do we have a
> single pair of strings with the same md5 hash?

No, but it will happen sooner or later. You could (if you were really
bored) write a program to go around ftp sites downloading .md5 files and
checking for matches and you'd probably find some, but I haven't seen any.

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