---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:56:48 -0700 From: Kent Seamons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: uvcrypto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Uvcrypto] [Fwd: X.509 certificate collision, via MD5 collisions] FYI - haven't looked at the details, but thought this would be of interest to the group. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: X.509 certificate collision, via MD5 collisions Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:43:02 -0500 From: "Sean W. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This just in, from Lenstra et al > We announce a method for the construction of pairs of valid X.509 > certificates in which the �to > be signed� parts form a collision for the MD5 hash function. As a > result the issuer signatures > in the certificates will be the same when the issuer uses MD5 as its > hash function. > http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/067 _______________________________________________ UV Crypto website: http://www.xmission.com/~hilarie/ucs.html Uvcrypto mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uvcrypto unsubscribe through the url above, or send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject line "unsubscribe" -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
