bugtraq - Re: SHA-1 broken

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:35:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Damian Menscher <menscher@...c.edu>
To: securityfocus@...rotechnical.co.uk
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: SHA-1 broken

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 securityfocus@...rotechnical.co.uk wrote:
>
> In much the same way if the original text was 'I owe you 1 million 
> dollars' and the collision text was 'sdf86*&6989h,mni lkj99j' its not 
> significant.

Hey, Nick.  I want to confirm that I've installed GPG correctly.  Would 
you mind signing some random text, say, "sdf86*&6989h,mni lkj99j", so I 
can test it?

I'll admit I agree with your point, though.  The demonstrated collisions 
in MD5 (none have been demonstrated in SHA-1 yet) varied four high-order 
bits.  So it'd be fairly unrealistic (in the real world) to generate a 
useful collision.  Here I define "useful" to mean at least one side has 
to be intelligible (as opposed to your definition of having both sides 
be intelligible).

Damian Menscher
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