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Wait, what? No MD5 collisions at all were publicly known until Xiaoyun Wang disclosed one in 2004 using a new cryptographic technique she invented (explained in Wang and Yu's "How to Break MD5 and Other Hash Functions").

MD5 has a 128-bit output so collisions that occur by chance should require about 2⁶⁴ inputs (18 exa-inputs). Surely your database didn't contain over 2⁶⁴ different movie records.

Could you take a look at what you were doing again? Your description doesn't really make sense mathematically.




You must be right. I can't reproduce it. I must have fucked something up then.




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