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MD5CRK

MD5CRK is a distributed effort (similar to distributed.net) to demonstrate that the MD5 message digest algorithm is insecure by finding a collision — two messages that produce the same MD5 hash.

The project went live on March 1 2004.

See also

• Brute force attack

External links

• MD5CRK website

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