William wrote regarding 'Re: [OT]: md5 no longer secure' on Sat, Nov 19 at 17:32:
> On Nov 19, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Peter wrote:
> 
> >Someone probably knew beforehead what is coming...
> 
> Apparently slash dot is a bit behind the times.  The attacks date
> back to last year. with the 1.8 hour attack dating back to march.

Some people just aren't reading the news regularly:

July 3, 2004 - rainbow table-based MD5 cracking site:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/03/1728231&tid=172&tid=93&tid=8
Aug 16, 2004 - SHA-0 broken, MD5 rumored so:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/17/0030243&tid=93&tid=162&tid=1
Dec. 7, 2004 - collision attack discussed:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/07/2019244&tid=93&tid=172&tid=8

Also, Feb. 15, 2005 - Sha-1 broken:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/16/0146218&tid=93&tid=172&tid=218
and Aug, 05 - online MD5 hash database:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/21/1946254&tid=172&tid=95

:)

--Danny
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