From: Jerrold Leichter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Aug 24, 2004 7:18 AM
To: Joseph Ashwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: On hash breaks, was Re: First quantum crypto bank transfer
[[Note: I've tried to sort out who wrote what, but something odd was
going on in the quoting
| Alternatively, how anyone can have absolute confidence in conventional
| crypto
| in a week when a surprise attack appears against a widely-fielded
| primitive
| like MD5 is beyond me. Is our certainty about AES's security really any
| better today than was our certainty about RIPEM - or
Joe Ashwood writes:
Except for RIPEM there were known to be reasons for this, MD5 was
known to be flawed, SHA-0 was replaced because it was flawed (although
knowledge of the nature of the flaw was hidden). Even with RIPEM (and SHA-1
for the same reason) I have plans in place (and have had
- Original Message -
From: Jerrold Leichter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: On hash breaks, was Re: First quantum crypto bank transfer
| (they all have backup
| plans that involve the rest of the SHA series and at the very least
| Whirlpool).
Moving to a larger hash function
