SHA-256 source code (fwd)

Jim Choate ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Tue Feb 20 05:34:59 PST 2001




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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:47:59 -0800
From: Wei Dai <weidai at eskimo.com>
To: sao19677 at terra.com.br
Cc: coderpunks at toad.com
Subject: Re: Re: SHA-256 source code

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:12:20AM -0300, sao19677 at terra.com.br wrote:
> Sorry for the question, but how could we be sure
> you are the *same* anonymous that posted the code?
> And for that matter, how could any court possibly
> judge authorship in this case? What prevents anybody
> else from using the same amonymous remailer to claim
> her ownership too?

If the original anonymous author had the foresight to timestamp his code
together with a public key before he posted the code, he can now claim
authorship by publishing the timestamp and signing messages with that key.

BTW, if anyone wants a public domain implementation of SHA-2 (including
-256, -384, and -512) with known authorship, there's one available in
Crypto++. It's written by myself, based on Steve Reid's public domain
SHA-1 code.





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