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Message-ID: <200502191724.j1JHOHgB021995@caligula.anu.edu.au>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:24:17 +1100 (Australia/ACT)
From: Darren Reed <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au>
To: dullien@....de
Cc: robert@...wood.org (Robert Sussland),
gadi@...ila.gov.il (Gadi Evron), bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: SHA-1 broken
In some mail from dullien@....de, sie said:
>
> Hey all,
>
> > We abandon the requirement of collision resistance. This is a strange
> > requirement, and is not supported by experience. Collision resistance
>
> we might think of changing the requirement of collision resistance
> to "collision resistance in input data that is valid ASCII text". The
> attacks on MD5 used the weak avalanche of the highest-order bit
> in 32-bit words for producing the collision, basically precluding the
> possibility of generating colliding ASCII text.
And what about the case for (uncompressed) binary images ?
Darren
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