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6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5)

6.4.4. The RSA MD5 Checksum (rsa-md5)

The RSA-MD5 checksum calculates a checksum using the RSA MD5 algorithm [16]. The algorithm takes as input an input message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit (16 octet) checksum. RSA-MD5 is believed to be collision-proof.


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