Re: Re: Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

2007-08-15 Thread Christian Rechberger
Quoting Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: At 11:00 PM -0700 8/13/07, Aram Perez wrote: Anyone know more about this? I have the same question. I could not find any description of *why* they think that finding near-misses is going to help the research. It's not clear if they are taking thei

Re: Re: Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

2007-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:31 PM +0200 8/14/07, Christian Rechberger wrote: The mentioned article is indeed confusing, the information in there took apparently several hops. Welcome to the world of public cryptography! :-) At least I haven't seen anyone so far suggest that you will find pre-images. To address yo

Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

2007-08-15 Thread Christian Rechberger
Quoting Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: At 11:31 PM +0200 8/14/07, Christian Rechberger wrote: The mentioned article is indeed confusing, the information in there took apparently several hops. Welcome to the world of public cryptography! :-) At least I haven't seen anyone so far suggest