Re: DH group exchange (Re: SSH key algorithm updates)

[email protected] (Niels Möller)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.secsh
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"Mark D. Baushke" <[email protected]> writes:

> See also:
>
>   http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-107-rev1/sp800-107-rev1.pdf
>   Section 4.2 table 1.

It's not clear to me why the "collision resistance strength" rather
than "preimage resistance strength" or "second preimage strength" apply
when using sha2 for generating session keys and the exchange hash.

Regards,
/Niels

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