On 28/12/2007, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matter of fact this weakness is the main avenue of attack on > cryptographic hashes see http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199.pdf > A slightly off topic side note NIST is having a contest to attempt to > mitigate these issues in "SHA-3" see: > http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/index.html. Currently > there only 4 teams that have expressed interest in entering perhaps > this will get more interest.
All of this is true but it's not very useful for hash tables (crypto-strength hash functions are generally too slow for the purpose) :) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
