ID Project Category View Status Date Submitted Last Update 0003684 Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas Security public 2008-06-12 -12-02 00:22 Reporter IJs Assigned To ccw Priority low Severity feature Reproducibility N/A Status closed Resolution no change required Product Version Target Version 2.0 Fixed in Version Summary 0003684: Change serial hashing algorithm Description Currently, serials are identified as MD5 hashes which are everything but user-friendly. A different (smaller) hashing algorithm such as 3DES could be used to turn the serials into smaller numbers. Tags No tags attached.

The problem is, just making the serials smaller would increase the birthday problem. Blast Doors Pc Download. In my eyes, that doesn't make much sense atm. Movie A Beautiful Mind In 3gp. MD5 is a pretty, lets say, small hash, and even considered outdated since its just a 32 digit hash and prone to collisions and pseudo-collisions. Up-to-date hashing algorithms would even create a longer serial. English Malayalam Typing Software.

MTA Serial Ban? Any ways around this? It was possible to avoid serial ban on MTA by changing your registry. But however, not anymore. They patched it already.

Also, I was wondering what serials have to be user-friendly for. The average administrator shouldn't even be able to see that serial, thats a security issue in my eyes. MAC can be changed in few minutes. Be much more effective and more versatile - make more than one serial number, which is based on different data of PC components, and multiple serials, each of which will be MD5 hash of any PC part - HDD, motherboard, processor, video card or something else.