On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Nicholas Weaver wrote:
IF the hash is good, FINDING collisions doesn't necessarily help the
attacker, as the attacker really needs to generate lots of collisions
to make the searches O(n) instead of O(1), since that is teh key
behind this attack.
First, I myself assume
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:33:06PM -0500, Scott A Crosby wrote:
They exploit the difference between 'typical case' behavior versus
worst-case behavior. For instance, in a hash table, the performance is
usually O(1) for all operations. However in an adversarial
environment, the attacker
Hello. This is to announce a new class of attack which we have named
'Algorithmic Complexity Attack'. These attacks can perform denial of
service and/or cause the victim to consume more CPU time than
expected. We have a website for our research paper and project and
tentative source code
