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Re: Certainty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Aug 19 20:10:40 2009
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:51:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: <p06240807c6b22bf61439@[10.20.30.158]> (Paul Hoffman's message of
"Wed\, 19 Aug 2009 15\:28\:22 -0700")
Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> writes:
> The longer that MD5 goes without any hint of preimage attacks, the
> less "certain" I am that collision attacks are even related to
> preimage attacks.
I believe that yesterday, at the rump session at Crypto, restricted
preimage attacks were described. Not quite what you want, but getting
closer.
Perry
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