On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:33:51PM -0500, Nick Tarleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2003 06:09 am, Some Guy wrote:
> > > need an accurate pLegitDNF which takes the key as a parameter. We used
> 
> If SHA1 is any good, pLegitDNF should not depend on the key, should it? All 
> kinds of data, existing and otherwise, should be distributed all through 
> keyspace, and so the pLegitDNF for DEADBEEF... should be the same as that for 
> FEEDBAGG...

Unless there is a targetted attack on a given key, which is what we were
discussing here - just start at the key, and make lots of requests for
random keys sharing the first 10 bytes with the key you want to DoS.
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