Re: Added hashes.

John E. Hadstate <jh113355@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Do you mean, "easier to concoct a plaintext that collides with a given
> plaintext, is still meaningful, and is somehow advantageous to the
> attacker?" Good luck doing that with any of the standard hashes we
> have today (including MD4 or SHA1).

See `A Note on Practical Value of Single Hash Collisions for Special
File Formats', by Gebhardt, Illies, and Schindler:

http://www.csrc.nist.gov/pki/HashWorkshop/2005/Oct31_Presentations/Illies_NIST_05.pdf

-- [mdw]
Received on Fri Dec 23 20:09:36 2005