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You're clearly somebody who wants to rely on "rules of thumb" for security. I'm arguing against the entire concept of rules of thumb and you've since argued against a strawman. Did…

We cannot produce an input that produces an arbitrary given hash. Here's an easy counterexample: the all-zeroes md5sum. That's an even harder problem than the one I've claimed is e…

That's fine. I will literally give you $10,000 if¹ you can give me a MD5 preimage attack. Take your attack vector to be that particular md5sum that you are making fun of. MD5 is no…