Posts made in July, 2010

More on the CYBERCOM MD5 Hash

Posted by Paul on Jul 8, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

Yesterday, the Internet “blew up” with hype over the mysterious characters around the U.S. Cyber Command logo. As reported by the various blogs and news outlets all over the world (here’s one from ComputerWorld), people quickly started to catch on that the mysterious string is an MD5 hash. ComputerWorld and many others lead you to believe that these people were also able to “crack” them MD5 hash and recover a secret message, but that is absolutely untrue. In fact, it is impossible to generate an original message or piece of data from an MD5 hash. MD5 Hashes...