Re: SHA1 collisions found
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Date
- Mar 2, 2017, 22:27 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> wrote:
> > There's a surprising result of combining iterated hash functions, that > the combination is no more difficult to attack than the strongest hash > function used.
Duh. I should actually have known that. I started reading the paper and went "this seems very familiar". I'm pretty sure I've been pointed at that paper before (or maybe just a similar one), and I just didn't react enough for it to leave a lasting impact.
Linus