Hi Eugen, > Looked at another way, if you submitted a paper "Yet another chosen prefix > > >attack on MD5" to Crypto/AsiaCrypt/Eurocrypt, do you think it'd get > >accepted?.
> I fully understand this one could call this an "acceptance" bias...not only > ur name should sound right , u should also be in right group ( I am sure u > know what I mean ..) Regards Anish Anish Mohammed Twitter: anishmohammed http://uk.linkedin.com/in/anishmohammed On 13 Jun 2012, at 10:11, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> ----- > > From: Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:26:39 +1200 > To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [silk] Flame is Lame > > Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> quotes: > >> And suddenly, just like that, the discussion on whether Flame is lame or not >> b&vanished. > > Yeah, because cryptographacamy is magic. The exploit may have used 0day and > rootkits and ROP and stealth techniques and self-modifying code and who knows > what else, but any five-year-old can do that. However, if there's any > cryptographi... cryptograma... magic involved then it had to have been done by > sikrit gummint agencies. > > I'm not saying it was or it wasn't, but I am a bit disturbed at the level of > magical thinking that goes with anything involving crypto. There have been > some pretty sophisticated attacks on crypto keys in embedded devices for > jailbreaking purposes that were done by enthusiastic amateurs, not even the > likes of (to pick some random examples of crypto people who've done this > before) David Wagner or Ed Felten or Markus Kuhn but just some random guys who > decided to give it a go. > > Looked at another way, if you submitted a paper "Yet another chosen prefix > attack on MD5" to Crypto/AsiaCrypt/Eurocrypt, do you think it'd get > accepted?. > I'm not trying to denigrate the achievement, just to add a little perspective. > > Peter. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE >
