Posted by Dan Rossi on 04/22/05 14:38

>
> I don't think that's right. Collisions allow certain kinds of
> cryptographic attacks against things like MD5-based signatures but that
> is not at all the same as being able to simply determine the original
> message content from the digest. Rather, they allow you to substitute
> the original message with a different one which generates the same MD5
> hash. This may or may not be useful as an attack, depending on how MD5
> is being used.
>
>

Anyone ever tried using ENCODE and DECODE functions in mysql ?

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