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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:10:34 +0100
From:      "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD license compatible hash algorithm?
Message-ID:  <9bbcef730712280510v14806e7exb960f5da5f05e4d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4774F42C.5030105@gmail.com>
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On 28/12/2007, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Matter of fact this weakness is the main avenue of attack on
> cryptographic hashes see http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199.pdf
> A slightly off topic side note NIST is having a contest to attempt to
> mitigate these issues in "SHA-3" see:
> http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/index.html.   Currently
> there only 4 teams that have expressed interest in entering perhaps
> this will get more interest.

All of this is true but it's not very useful for hash tables
(crypto-strength hash functions are generally too slow for the
purpose) :)



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