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

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 3/23/07, Michael Silk <michaelslists () gmail com> wrote:
> 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?

OK.. your parents have a questionable heritage.

there, take that buddy!

-JP

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