in reply to nitpick
in thread On showing the weakness in the MD5 digest function and getting bitten by scalar context
Not having followed the recognization of MD5's weakness(es), it looks as if your two strings differ by the significant bit on the 20th, 30th, etc bytes. That looks like someone mathematically broke MD5. Now, wouldn't SHA-n have a similar problem, but with a much larger sample set? Or, is it because the algorithm took liberties it shouldn't have taken?
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