Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

[Paul Hoffman]

At 11:00 PM -0700 8/13/07, Aram Perez wrote:
>Anyone know more about this?

I have the same question. I could not find any description of *why* 
they think that finding near-misses is going to help the research. 
It's not clear if they are taking their own path, or trying to 
improve Wang's path, or what.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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