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Hash Collision and biological vulnerability #1

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hammad93 opened this issue Mar 24, 2024 · 4 comments
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Hash Collision and biological vulnerability #1

hammad93 opened this issue Mar 24, 2024 · 4 comments

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The MD5 hash is vulnerable because collision chances are great. There have been an unimaginable number of unique dna profiles of dna based organisms.
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estimate of collision of md5 from full sequence dna is 1 in 20,689,655,172

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https://preshing.com/20110504/hash-collision-probabilities/

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hammad93 commented Mar 24, 2024 •
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odds of having the same dna hash
https://preshing.com/20110504/hash-collision-probabilities/
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There's probably a trillion unique alive DNA right now. The chances of a hash collision is much more than it appears.

MD5 is not sufficient.

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