NIST Requests Public Comments

2009-08-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Forwarded message: From: Barker, Elaine B. elaine.bar...@nist.gov Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:40:24 -0400 Subject: NIST Requests Public Comments NIST announces the availability of two draft documents for public comment: NIST Special Publication 800-38E and NIST Interagency Report 7609. Draft

Re: Certainty

2009-08-23 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 7:10 PM -0700 8/19/09, james hughes wrote: On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: I understand that creaking is not a technical cryptography term, but certainly is. When do we become certain that devastating attacks on one feature of hash functions (collision resistance) have any