Re: MD5P (Variable length hash, kindof)

Yes, the whole Idea is states[2] and states[3] have a whole lot of 0's.
 That's why it's a variable length hash.

But the comments you made where interesting. You said

> Modding the output of the hash function
> [without being a function of the message] will NEVER decrease the
> likelyhood of a collision. At best it only doesn't increase it.

But surly using the sum of the message is using a function of the it,
in a very basic sense.
Received on Fri Dec 23 20:11:22 2005