Re: phasing out SHA1 for digest creation

Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-devel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/5/24 11:13, Rainer Perske wrote:
> Bruce Walzer schrieb am 2024-12-05:
>> What is the actual issue here?
> Extremely simplified:
>
> Attacker makes many good documents and many bad documents until he finds a collision.
> Seehttps://shattered.io
> Attacker takes the good document and the bad document with the same hash.
> Attacker asks victim to sign the good document.
> Victim does so.
> Attacker combines the signature with the bad document.
> So the attacker can "prove" that the victim has signed the bad document.

Better solution:  never sign a document exactly as presented to you; 
always make a small change first.  This could be as simple as including 
a nonce in the signature.  This is from Schneier's /Applied 
Cryptography/ from many years ago:  this problem (and its solution) is old.


-- Jacob

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