general defensive crypto coding principles

Ben Laurie ben at algroup.co.uk
Sun Feb 12 22:20:11 EST 2006


Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, I misspoke. I meant "proposed and not thought to be a stupid idea".

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