Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

Mon Aug 30 21:36:19 UTC 2004

At 05:10 PM 30/08/2004, Scott Call wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>>I recall even seeing posts about people claiming this meant original data 
>>being reconstructed from the checksum!  That would be truly amazing since 
>>I could reconstruct a 680MB ISO from just 
>>61d38fad42b4037970338636b5e72e5a. Wow!
>
>Technically, using an Infinate Monkeys approach, you could rebuild the ISO 
>by generating the expentially huge quantity of all possible data and check 
>them and find the one that matches the ISO.

Reminds me of Wyle E. Coyote.  Instead of getting a damn shotgun and just 
shooting the road runner, he gets the ACME MD5 hash-collision-o-tron to 
concoct some possible but improbable scheme involving RR'....

         ---Mike 