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Re: general defensive crypto coding principles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Feb 13 10:20:46 2006
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:20:11 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Cc: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Paul Hoffman wrote:
> At 5:40 PM +0000 2/12/06, Ben Laurie wrote:
>> It also defends against the MD5 crack, and is one of the recommended
>> IETF solutions to hash problems.
>
> s/recommended/proposed/
>
> The IETF has not recommended any "solutions to hash problems". The sense
> of the room at the Hash BOF and the SAAG discussion at the Paris IETF
> meeting was that the IETF should *not* propose solutions to the problem.
> That is why the BOF did not turn into a Working Group and why there has
> been little discussion of the proposed solutions in the relevant IETF
> working groups.
Agreed, I misspoke. I meant "proposed and not thought to be a stupid idea".
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