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Re: Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Hoffman)
Tue Aug 14 16:34:48 2007
In-Reply-To: <3EDFBD76-3A75-48A8-8426-1BD298766DB7@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:21:52 -0700
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
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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