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SHA256 reduced to 112 bits?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wouters)
Thu Jul 29 10:03:35 2010

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:55:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com


Hi,

I've heard rumors of an attack on the SHA-2 family reducing complexity of 
SHA256 to something less or equal of 112 bits.

This attack will apparently be announced in a few days - perhaps at Black Hat or
Def Con?

I would be interested in knowing more.

Paul

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