Re: Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

2007-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 4:49 PM -0300 8/14/07, Mads Rasmussen wrote: Have a look at http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/sha1_coll_search Did that, in specific http://www.iaik.tugraz.at/research/krypto/collision/SHA1Collision_Description.php Note the lack of information about what they are actually doing. We developed

Re: Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

2007-08-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:00 PM -0700 8/13/07, Aram Perez wrote: Anyone know more about this? I have the same question. I could not find any description of *why* they think that finding near-misses is going to help the research. It's not clear if they are taking their own path, or trying to improve Wang's