Posted by Toby Inkster on 12/13/06 01:23

Norman Peelman wrote:

> The odds of any two strings having the same md5 are on the order of 2^64
> operations.

The odds of any two *given* strings having the same MD5 are about 3.4E-38.

The odds that some two strings have the same MD5 are 1. On a modern
computer, you should be able to calculate a "collision" in minutes.
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