MD5 is 1=>1?
Roger Bryner
bryner at atlas.chem.utah.edu
Mon Jul 4 10:03:19 PDT 1994
On Mon, 4 Jul 1994 nobody at shell.portal.com wrote:
> Now if I have entered a phrase with EXACTLY 128 bits of entropy,
> hypothetically, is that enough to have flushed the padding or
> whatever out of the pipeline?
I have had this question also, has it been shown that the transformation
of 128bit words through md5 is *theoretically* invertable, as if it is
not, iterating it 1024 times could actually make you *LOOSE* entropy.
(say it was a random transformation, it would not contain each of the 128
bit outputs, ie some inputs would map to the same output.)
I am not aware of any such result.
Roger.
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