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Find me a hash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Wed Feb 8 16:28:09 2006
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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:48:24 +0100 (CET)
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From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Susan Landau has an article in the upcoming March issue of Notices of
the AMS: "Find me a hash."
There is a short preview of the article here:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/ams-dsa020106.php
it even includes a "non-public" (whatever that means) link to the
paper itself:
http://www.ams.org/staff/jackson/fea-landau.pdf
Readers of the cryptography list may not learn anything new from it,
but it seems like a nice summary of the present state of affairs.
The article opens by calling hash function the duct tape of
cryptography, and ends with these words:
What is the theory of hash functions? It is not often that
mathematicians are asked to develop a theory for duct tape, but
there is a clear and present need to do so now for cryptographic
hash functions.
- Harald
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