[Cryptography] [cryptography] NIST Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards

[Paul Hoffman]

> On May 14, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:
> 
>> So there's two possibilities...
>> 1. all the cryptography is trivially broken
>> 2. NIST is incompetent
> 
> 3.  Your assumptions are faulty
> 4. The extrapolation from those assumptions are faulty
> 5. Breaking a digest is really different from cracking a cipher.

6. Breaking the collision resistance for older widely-deployed hash functions is possible; breaking the preimage resistance so far is not