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December 31, 2003

Distributed computing project

Via Slashdot, this interesting distributed approach to finding MD5 collisions. It leverages the computing cycles on browsers that visit any website whose html contains the Javascript code.

What is interesting about this approach - when we reach final release stage - is that any website that adds this small snippet of code their their pages, will have their visitors working on the problem for the duration of their visit to the site. The applet stores its state every 5 seconds in a cookie which is used to re-initialize the applet at next load. Should a few high-traffic, "sticky" websites carry this innocuous HTML code, a massive amount of work can be done.

Neat application of Javascript, requires no client software installation.

Posted by Narasimha Chari at 07:26 PM in security, software, technology | Permalink

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