Some colleagues (Hovav Shacham, Brandon Enright, Scott Yikel, and
Stefan Savage) and I have been doing some followup work on the Debian
OpenSSL PRNG bug. Perry suggested that some cryptography readers
might be interested in our preliminary analysis of the DHE angle,
which can be found here:
See his presentation slides here
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rivest-TheMD6HashFunction.ppt.
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Sent: 21. august 2008 19:26
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Subject: The MD6 hash function
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:26 -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
Ron Rivest presented his (along with a dozen other people's) new hash,
MD6, yesterday at Crypto.
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He also presented a number of cryptanalytic results. There is provable
security against differential cryptanalysis, by
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:26 -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
Ron Rivest presented his (along with a dozen other people's) new hash,
MD6, yesterday at Crypto.
The slides for this presentation are available from Ronald's website:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rivest-TheMD6HashFunction.ppt
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There have been other earlier reports, but the neat thing about this
one is that the attackers went for the DNS record for the ISP's own
crappy that domain doesn't exist, here, have some ads instead web
page.
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3163.aspx
Hat tip: Bill Squier
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