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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: postscript</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/postscript.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-04-04T19:24:36+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Hash Collisions (The Poisoned Message Attack)</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/4/hash/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-04-04T19:24:36+00:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T19:24:36+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/4/hash/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/lucks/HashCollisions/"&gt;Hash Collisions (The Poisoned Message Attack)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Demonstrates the MD5 weakness by providing two deliberately engineered PostScript documents with the same MD5 hash but radically different rendered output.


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