On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is meaningless to talk about cryptography without a threat model, just as >> Robert says. Is anybody actually attacking us? Or are we worried about >> accidental collisions? >> > > I believe it began as accidental collisions, then everyone promptly > put on their tinfoil hats and started talking about a hypothetical > vandal who has the time and desire to generate hash collisions.
Having run a wiki which I eventually abandoned due to various "Grawp attacks", I can assure you that there's nothing hypothetical about it. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
