Re: Interesting links about vulnerabilities in SHA1 / MD5

Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mahogany.devel
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:51:17 +1000 Mark Livingstone <[email protected]> wrote:

ML> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5313655.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
ML> http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199.pdf
ML> http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,95343,00.html?nas=SEC2-95343

 I didn't have time to read this but this:

	http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/hash.html

seems to indicate that:

a) only MD5, not SHA1, is concerned
b) it is a collision and not a reverse function attack

 In any case, we can hardly do anything about it...
VZ



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