Re: The Pointlessness of the MD5 'attacks'

2004-12-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Tim Dierks wrote: Here's an example, although I think it's a stupid one, and agree with [...] I send you a binary (say, a library for doing AES encryption) which you test exhaustively using black-box testing. The black-box testing would obviously be the mistake. How can you

Re: Approximate hashes

2004-09-01 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Marcel Popescu wrote: My problem is that I don't know what happens with the email in transit some mail server might dislike ASCII characters with the high bit set, or Hence my question: is there some approximate hash function (which I could PGP has this issue with