[Cryptography] Possible SHA2 vulnerability

[Ben Laurie]

On 29 June 2017 at 18:56, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:
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>> On Jun 28, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:
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>> > https://github.com/laie/WorldsFirstSha2Vulnerability
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>> Turns out to be a false alarm.
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>> https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/48580/fixed-point
>> -of-the-sha-256-compression-function
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>> Oh well, learn something new every day.
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> ​I am confused. Since when did SHA-256 have an ​initialization vector?
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Since forever? But it is fixed.
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