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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: Florian Hars <hars@bik-gmbh.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Computing with big numbers?
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 08:07:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E83B68C4-B0FA-4A10-87F1-F8961AFD9918@polytechnique.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4937FFEE.9060709@bik-gmbh.de>

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On 4 déc. 08, at 17:06, Florian Hars wrote:

> Alan Schmitt schrieb:
>> But I don't think this applies here, as the hashes I'm
>> looking at are the one used by Unison to identify file contents.
>
> Then it is *especially* relevant, as it is quite trivial to generate
> several files with  different content and the same MD5 hash, all you
> need is a Playstation 3:
> http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/Nostradamus/

Thanks for the link, but I wasn't considering a malicious attack: if  
someone were able to modify my files, I would not worry about Unison  
not detecting (thus not propagating) a malicious change.

Alan

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-05  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01 12:36 Alan Schmitt
2008-12-01 12:52 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2008-12-01 14:29   ` Alan Schmitt
2008-12-01 13:47 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-12-01 14:37   ` Alan Schmitt
2008-12-04 16:06     ` Florian Hars
2008-12-04 16:40       ` David Thomas
2008-12-04 21:51       ` Martin Jambon
2008-12-05  7:07       ` Alan Schmitt [this message]

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