On: Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep

[ryan-c]

What you describe there would be a preimage attack[0], not a collision attack. There is no publicly known practical[1] preimage attack on MD5 at this time.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimage_attack

1. 2^123.4 complexity is not practical

[taumhn → ryan-c]

If I understand correctly, what's described in the article indeed uses a collision attack. The "trusted app" is one the hacker manufactures himself.

[ryan-c → taumhn]

Yes, that was what the article says, but the person I was responding to misunderstood.