Crypto '09 rump session summary?

2009-08-19 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Watching the rump session online briefly last night, I saw that some interesting new results on MD5 and AES seem to have been discussed at the conference. Would anyone care to give us a brief overview for the mailing list? Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com

Re: Crypto '09 rump session summary?

2009-08-19 Thread Greg Rose
Target collisions for MD5 can be calculated in seconds on a laptop, based on just a small change in the first block of input. There was also a semi-successful demo of MD5 certificate problems; you could join the special wireless network, and any https connection would be silently proxied

Re: Crypto '09 rump session summary?

2009-08-19 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 2:46 PM -0700 8/19/09, Greg Rose wrote: ...some summaries of some of the presentations... More like this, please! The rump sessions have a lot of value (beyond the often-strained attempts at humor). --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium