Re: elliptic-curve cryptography, are we ready?

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

On 8/16/07, Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com> wrote:
> coderman wrote:
> > ... [sha1 has been broken down to 2^69 or less
>
> For non-chosen birthday collisions. Not quite there yet, but on its way.
> Unless it has gotten worse since I last heard?

that's correct.  although there is an ongoing targeted collision
project that is due to publish details later this year which may
change the situation :)

[see http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/sha1_coll_search/ ; very sparse on
detail so far unfortunately...]
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