From owner-freebsd-security Fri Apr 20 2:11:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from redlance.singingtree.com (pool.207.151.148.221.cinenet.net [207.151.148.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFA437B422 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikey@singingtree.com) Received: from localhost (mikey@localhost) by redlance.singingtree.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3K9Ar841964 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:11:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikey@singingtree.com) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:10:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael A. Dickerson" To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tripwire or the like for FreeBSD ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Garrett Wollman" wrote > (Hmmm. I wonder how susceptible these hash algorithms are to quantum > computation...?) Not very--at least, no publicly known research suggests that quantum computers will be immediately useful against hash algorithms. The only published quantum algorithm relevant to cryptography (that I know of) is for factoring large numbers in polynomial time. (Sorry, couldn't resist commenting as I just finished my thesis on quantum computing and Fourier transforms!) M.D. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message