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Message-ID: <etu33s$fe7$1@sea.gmane.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:16:27 -0000
From: "Dave \"No, not that one\" Korn" <davek_throwaway@...mail.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Chinese Professor Cracks Fifth Data
SecurityAlgorithm (SHA-1)
Tim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:45:19PM +0300, 3APA3A wrote:
>> Dear Michael Silk,
>>
>> First, by reading 'crack' I thought lady can recover full
>> message by it's signature. After careful reading she can bruteforce
>> collisions 2000 times faster.
>
> Both of you guys are confused.
>
> First off Michael: this is old news. It doesn't seem to indicate that
> finding collisions is any faster than 2^63, which was reported quite
> some time ago[1].
It's not just old news, but old old news, since we already had this
discussion about how it was old news back in january when the piece was
published...
cheers,
DaveK
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