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Re: how to phase in new hash algorithms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Wolf)
Mon Mar 21 13:57:04 2005
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:52:38 +0100
From: Christopher Wolf <chris@Christopher-Wolf.de>
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Hi,
Ian G wrote:
> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> So -- what should we as a community be doing now? There's no
>> emergency on SHA1, but we do need to start, and soon.
>
>
> The wider question is how to get moving on new hash
> algorithms. That's a bit tricky.
>
> Normally we'd look to see NIST or the NESSIE guys
> lead a competition. But NESSIE just finished a
> comp, and may not have the appetite for another.
NESSIE is now called Ecrypt and _does_ do something on Hash functions, see
http://www.impan.gov.pl/BC/05Hash.html
It's not a call for a new hash function, I admit this, but I guess it's
too early for something like this anyway at the moment.
CU,
Christopher
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