general defensive crypto coding principles

[Paul Hoffman]

At 5:40 PM +0000 2/12/06, Ben Laurie wrote:
>It also defends against the MD5 crack, and is one of the recommended
>IETF solutions to hash problems.

s/recommended/proposed/

The IETF has not recommended any "solutions to hash problems". The 
sense of the room at the Hash BOF and the SAAG discussion at the 
Paris IETF meeting was that the IETF should *not* propose solutions 
to the problem. That is why the BOF did not turn into a Working Group 
and why there has been little discussion of the proposed solutions in 
the relevant IETF working groups.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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