Re: Now that SHA-1 is cracked...

From: Galen (galennews_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:01:47 -0500

In news:MPG.1c8456109ec808b8989ba7@msnews.microsoft.com,
Paul Adare <padare@newsguy.com> had this to say:

> Irresponsible journalism at its worst, and you obviously don't know
> enough about cryptography to understand the issues here. SHA-1 has
> not been cracked, the researchers have simply determined that rather
> than finding collisions in 2*80 they can find them with 2*69. While
> that is 2048 times easier to find a collision, SHA-1 has not been
> cracked at all. I'd suggest that rather than reading the news you
> spend some time researching cryptography.

How snide... At what point did I say that I knew anything about
cryptography??? I think, if you look at my post, all I did was point to
where the OP had gotten the information. I made no comment of the veracity
of the post, the news, nor of Matt's statement. In fact, having read a great
deal of Matt's posts in the past I tend to trust what he says. My post was
only referring to the origin of the OP's post.

Galen 

-- 
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the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am
in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial
stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for
mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes

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