Re: Chinese Professor Cracks Fifth Data SecurityAlgorithm (SHA-1)

["Michael Silk" <michaelslists () gmail com>]

On 3/23/07, Dave No, not that one Korn <davek_throwaway () hotmail com> wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:45:19PM +0300, 3APA3A wrote:
> >> Dear Michael Silk,
> >>
> >> First,  by  reading  'crack'  I thought lady can recover full
> >> message by it's signature. After careful reading she can bruteforce
> >> collisions 2000 times faster.
> >
> > Both of you guys are confused.
> >
> > First off Michael: this is old news.  It doesn't seem to indicate that
> > finding collisions is any faster than 2^63, which was reported quite
> > some time ago[1].
>
>   It's not just old news, but old old news, since we already had this
> discussion about how it was old news back in january when the piece was
> published...



yes yes yes. i have a bad memory. i don't read articles before posting them.
anyone else want to take a shot?



   cheers,
>       DaveK
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