Re: Added hashes.
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Re: Added hashes.

From: David Wagner <daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 04:55:54 CET



John E. Hadstate wrote:


>Notice, however, that I am 


>not advancing (and I do not subscribe to) the notion that 


>the XOR of two hashes produces a hash that is more immune to 


>attack than either constituent.



Yup.  Actually, the XOR-hash could be arbitrarily worse than either


of its two components (with respect to collision-resistance).


Received on Fri Dec 23 20:09:54 2005