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Practical MD5 collision exploits

The well known problem of MD5 collisions allowed researchers to impersonate a certificate authority. This would allow  HTTPS to be subverted via a man in the middle attack. For $2,000 and a day, hackers could pull off this attack using Amazon’s EC2.

Instead of relying on Google Reader’s sharing function, I think I’ll start posting tidbits on my blog.

I’m a huge fan of Amazon Web Services. I should play around a bit more with EC2.

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