Re: Tom St Denis says Joe Asswood is "full of shit" -- but we already knew that ... My my, how time flies ...... it's been about "1 hour"

Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> <tomstdenis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1125743098.665941.72950@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > [follow-ups once again snipped]
> >
> > Crypto@S.M.S wrote:
> > > tomstdenis@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Regis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > - claims that MD5 can be cracked in under one hour
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Depends on what cracked means. If you mean invert the function
> > > > whoever claimed that is full of shit. If they mean produce
> > > > documents that collide it's possible AND has been done.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Joseph Ashwood made that claim, as the basis for his belief that
> > > CryptoSMS encrypted SMS messages could be "cracked" in under an
> > > hour:
> >
> > IF that's what he said then he's wrong.
> >
> > Congrats. Get over it, move on.
> >
> > How are you showing us your program is any good by acting like an
> > ass at every chance you get?
>
> If I had said that MD5 could be reversed, yes, I would've been
> incorrect,

No, Tommy boy says you're "full of shit" ...

>but look at the actual quote used, in particular the words
> "effectively reversed."

And of course you do know rudimentary English, right?

> In this case "effectively reversed" means
> that while MD5 starts as a many-1 function, due to the restricted
> input space it becomes 1-1 with probability ~1-(2^-100).

Funny, care to provide any source or citation, anywhere on planet
Earth, that defines "effectively reversed" in those equivocating terms?

> From this
> 1-1 function with the restricted input space it is possible to
> iterate through all the possible inputs thus generating the onto
> sequence. Resulting in a 1-1 onto function. This is not an attack on
> MD5, regardless of how many times such claims are reiterated, but is
> instead solely an attack on the input space. I have explained this
> several times, whether this inability to understand a rather basic
> concept is a failing of his English, or simply of him, I'll leave as
> an exercise to the reader. Joe

Translation: Tommy Boy is correct, you are "full of shit".
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:52:25 2005