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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!not-for-mail From: hot@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Holger Trapp) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.security.unix Subject: Re: how MD5 works Date: 22 Apr 97 11:28:26 GMT Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5ji82n$r04$1@narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <01bc4ecf$0b2c9840$2fa56bc7@jasmin> NNTP-Posting-Host: ultra.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39517 comp.security.unix:33854 "Jian L. Zhen" <jlz@isli.com> writes: >I read thru some material for MD5 and it seems that MD5, as a one-way hash >function, will generate the same results with the same input everytime. >am I correct? Yes. Otherwise it would be no one-way hash function. > is there anything in algorithm that might make the result >variable each time? No. If you change the algorithm then you have a different function and no longer MD5. To get a variable output with MD5 you need a variable input each time. Holger