On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson >> <rnnel...@clarkson.edu> wrote: >>> It is meaningless to talk about cryptography without a threat model, just >>> as Robert says. Is anybody actually attacking us? Or are we worried about >>> accidental collisions? >>> >> >> I believe it began as accidental collisions, then everyone promptly >> put on their tinfoil hats and started talking about a hypothetical >> vandal who has the time and desire to generate hash collisions. > > Having run a wiki which I eventually abandoned due to various "Grawp > attacks", I can assure you that there's nothing hypothetical about it. >
For those of us who do not know...what the heck is a Grawp attack? Does it involve generating hash collisions? -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
