Erratica » md5 http://www.liujoshua.org Joshua Liu Online Thu, 27 May 2010 21:35:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Practical MD5 collision exploits http://www.liujoshua.org/2009/01/07/practical-md5-collision-exploits/ http://www.liujoshua.org/2009/01/07/practical-md5-collision-exploits/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:14:46 +0000 joshuwaliu http://joshuwaliu.com/wordpress/?p=82 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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