Exponent 3 damage spreads...

[Jostein Tveit]

pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:

> What's more scary is that if anyone introduces a parameterised hash (it's
> quite possible that this has already happened in some fields, and with the
> current interest in randomised hashes it's only a matter of time before we see
> these anyway) [...]

Both Rivest and Shamir said that they want a parameterised hash
according to Paul Hoffman's "Notes from the Hash Futures Panel".
<URL: http://www.proper.com/lookit/hash-futures-panel-notes.html >

Maybe thats not so good after all.
Or maybe the "not so good thing" here is exponent equal to 3...

-- 
Jostein Tveit <josteitv at pvv.ntnu.no>

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