MD5 Collision, Visualised

2005-08-28 Thread Ben Laurie
I wrote some code to show the internal state of MD5 during a collision... http://www.shmoo.com/md5-collision.html Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the

Re: Fwd: Tor security advisory: DH handshake flaw

2005-08-28 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Miller-Rabin is good for testing random candidates, but it is easy to maliciously construct an n that passes several rounds of Miller-Rabin. Interesting! So how does one go about constructing such an n? Maurer’s method doesn’t pick and test random candidates,

Re: MD5 Collision, Visualised

2005-08-28 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Laurie writes: I wrote some code to show the internal state of MD5 during a collision... http://www.shmoo.com/md5-collision.html Very nice, though you need to give a scale of rounds -- how many horizontal lines per round? --Steven M.

Re: Another entry in the internet security hall of shame....

2005-08-28 Thread Dave Howe
Nicolas Williams wrote: Yes, a challenge-response password authentication protocol, normally subject to off-line dictionary attacks by passive and active attackers can be strengthened by throwing in channel binding to, say, a TLS channel, such that: a) passive attacks are not possible, b) MITMs

Re: MD5 Collision, Visualised

2005-08-28 Thread Ben Laurie
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Laurie writes: I wrote some code to show the internal state of MD5 during a collision... http://www.shmoo.com/md5-collision.html Very nice, though you need to give a scale of rounds -- how many horizontal lines per round? 1