Xiaoyun

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Xiaoyun
Swag Score	2
Date Added	2024-06-22

[view source]Visual Elements

White t-shirt with a thin table with a variety of combinations of letters and numbers in it.

[view source]Cultural Context

Wang Xiaoyun is a Chinese cryptographer famous for breaking the MD5 and SHA-1 hash functions in 2004-2005, work that fundamentally reshaped the field of cryptographic security. The table of letter-number combinations on this shirt represents the collision attacks she demonstrated against these widely-used hash algorithms.

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Swag Score: 2 Date Added: 2024-06-22