Download MD5CRK 1.0.2

MD5CRK is a new distributed-computing project that tries to demonstrate that the MD5 hash is no longer suitable as a security. The project team provides the following description:

This project aims to find collisions in outputs of the MD5 hash algorithm using distributed computing (or a “Chinese Lottery”, as mentioned in the previous story). The project will be considered successful if major crypto vendors – and developers in general – move away from the MD5 standard. MD5CRK is a unique distributed attack in that it attacks one of the most actively used crypto-related algorithm and will provide loads of data for crypto research. Other related projects only seek to decrypt a string of characters specifically encrypted to be attacked.[break]They are busy developing this client. Version 1.0.2 has recently been made available with the following changelog:[/break]Client v1.0.2 released. No critical flaws.

Fixes include:

• “X86SSE2ALU4 restart, no path6” flaw.
• “UserInfo bad formatting” flaw.
• Benign, non-critical, non-network, please-don’t-worry configuration file related buffer overflow when proxy setting expresses with colon charactor.
• “Old Pentium crash” flaw.

[break]The following downloads are ready:
Linux x86
Linux Pentium4
Linux PowerPC
Mac OS X
Windows x86
Windows Pentium4