SHA-1 collisions achievable in 2**52 attempts

Marti Raudsepp marti at juffo.org
Sat Jun 13 07:19:30 CDT 2009


The worst thing is that this time there is no obvious alternative. I'm
not too confident about the SHA-2 family as it's quite similar to
SHA-1. The SHA-3 hash (NIST hash competition) will not be chosen until
2012.

One solution could be using block cipher-based message authentication
codes such as CMAC or PMAC

Marti


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