[PLUG] Re: rpms

[Russ Johnson]

Tyler F. Creelan wrote:

>In theory you could also introduce your trojan in such
>a way that the modified rpm hashes to the same value. While not yet
>practical for MD5, such techniques for eliciting collisions and
>pseudo-collisions have been shown:
>
>Dobbertin, H. (1996). "The Status of Md5 After a Recent
>Attack," RSA Laboratories' CryptoBytes, Volume 2, Number 2.
>ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/cryptobytes/crypto2n2.pdf
>

Hmm, that link produces no connection for me...

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