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

2007-08-15 Thread Christian Rechberger
Quoting Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: At 11:31 PM +0200 8/14/07, Christian Rechberger wrote: The mentioned article is indeed confusing, the information in there took apparently several hops. Welcome to the world of public cryptography! :-) At least I haven't seen anyone so far suggest

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

2007-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:31 PM +0200 8/14/07, Christian Rechberger wrote: The mentioned article is indeed confusing, the information in there took apparently several hops. Welcome to the world of public cryptography! :-) At least I haven't seen anyone so far suggest that you will find pre-images. To address yo

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

2007-08-15 Thread Christian Rechberger
Quoting Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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 thei

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 Note the lack of information about what they are actually doing. "We develop

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

2007-08-14 Thread Mads Rasmussen
Have a look at http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/sha1_coll_search Aram Perez wrote: Anyone know more about this? -- Mads Rasmussen LEA - Laboratório de Ensaios e Auditoria ICP-Brasil (Brazilian PKI Cryptographic Certification Laboratory) Office: +55 11 4208 3873 Mobile: +55 11 9407 4493 Mobile

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 path,

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

2007-08-14 Thread Aram Perez
Anyone know more about this? Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven W. Teppler" Date: August 13, 2007 4:41:56 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough From DarkReading, via Heise Security: Cracking SHA-1 usin