Re: I'll show you mine if you show me, er, mine

2005-02-24 Thread Hal Finney
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

Re: SHA-1 results available

2005-02-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* 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,

Chatter Punks

2005-02-24 Thread John Young
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