hash-collision

How to find a collision of first 56 bits for MD5(MD5(x)) for input data with the same prefix? Question: I have a code to find the collision of the first 56 bits of the hash function: md5(md5(x)) (using the Floyd algorithm to find cycles). The script returns two strings (hare, tortoise) for which a collision …

hash function in Python 3.3 returns different results between sessions Question: I’ve implemented a BloomFilter in python 3.3, and got different results every session. Drilling down this weird behavior got me to the internal hash() function – it returns different hash values for the same string every session. Example: >>> hash(“235”) -310569535015251310 —– opening a …