On 2013-02-19 23:05, Michael Rogers wrote:
based on the first 80 bits of the hash of the service's public key, so
a collision can be generated after an expected 2^80  attempts.

Some nitpicking: with the birthday attack you can find collisions on a n-bit hash function using 2^(n/2) evaluations with probability > 1/2. This means, you only need 2^40 attempts to find collisions with a probability higher than 1/2.

--
 Kjell
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