Markus Jakobsson is a really smart guy who's done some cool stuff, so I
think this is probably better than it sounds in the article. His web
site is http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/markus/ but I don't see any
papers there that sound like what the article describes. I tried to
reverse engineer
* Jack Lloyd:
http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~yiqun/shanote.pdf
Thanks for the pointer.
No real details, just collisions for 80 round SHA-0 (which I just confirmed)
and 58 round SHA-1 (which I haven't bothered with), plus the now famous work
factor estimate of 2^69 for full SHA-1.
As usual,
Maybe it's been mentioned here but the book, Chatter: Dispatches
from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping, by Patrick Radden
Keefe mentions cypherpunks and a slew of people who've been around
here, or discussed, cited, admired, attacked and hated here.
Crypto is featured, along with the