SHA1 broken?
Trei, Peter
ptrei at rsasecurity.com
Thu Feb 17 16:56:07 PST 2005
Actually, the final challenge was solved in 23 hours, about
1/3 Deep Crack, and 2/3 Distributed.net. They were lucky, finding
the key after only 24% of the keyspace had been searched.
More recently, RC5-64 was solved about a year ago. It took
d.net 4 *years*.
2^69 remains non-trivial.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cypherpunks at minder.net on behalf of Dave Howe
Sent: Thu 2/17/2005 5:49 AM
To: Cypherpunks; Cryptography
Subject: Re: SHA1 broken?
Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> I believe you are incorrect in this statement. It is a matter of public
> record that RSA Security's DES Challenge II was broken in 72 hours by
> $250,000 worth of semi-custom machine, for the sake of solidity let's
> assume they used 2^55 work to break it. Now moving to a completely
> custom design, bumping up the cost to $500,000, and moving forward 7
> years, delivers ~2^70 work in 72 hours (give or take a couple orders of
> magnitude). This puts the 2^69 work well within the realm of realizable
> breaks, assuming your attackers are smallish businesses, and if your
> attackers are large businesses with substantial resources the break can
> be assumed in minutes if not seconds.
>
> 2^69 is completely breakable.
> Joe
Its fine assuming that moore's law will hold forever, but without
that you can't really extrapolate a future tech curve. with *todays*
technology, you would have to spend an appreciable fraction of the
national budget to get a one-per-year "break", not that anything that
has been hashed with sha-1 can be considered breakable (but that would
allow you to (for example) forge a digital signature given an example)
This of course assumes that the "break" doesn't match the criteria
from the previous breaks by the same team - ie, that you *can* create a
collision, but you have little or no control over the plaintext for the
colliding elements - there is no way to know as the paper hasn't been
published yet.
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