Gecko/20040803 To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com Subject: Re: SHA-1 rumors Sender: owner-cryptography@metzdowd.com Eric Rescorla wrote:
P.S. AFAIK, although Dobbertin was able to find preimages for reduced MD4, there still isn't a complete break in MD4. Correct?
Dobbertin published a complete break of MD4 (namely, a breaking algorithm and some collisions found with it) in the Journal of Cryptology. Mads --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'