In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Except that the NSA's reputation has taken a dent since they failed to >> anticipate the attacks on MD5 and SHA-1. > > NSA had nothing to do with MD5 ...
Nevertheless, it was their job to anticipate attacks on it. After all, they call themselves the "National _Security_ Agency", don't they? > ... and it's to NSA's credit that SHA-1 held up for as long as it did. But they have no convincing proposal for a successor. That means the gap between the classified and non-classified state of the art has shrunk down to insignificance. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
