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[Cfrg] tcp-md5 "strength"

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 29 September 2016 12:15 UTC

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Subject: [Cfrg] tcp-md5 "strength"
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Hiya,

I was just asked for an estimate for how much effort
it might be to break tcp-md5 [1] and whether (and for
whom:-) that might be practical, for any interesting
kind of break.

If anyone has answers or estimates handy, that'd be
appreciated.

Cheers,
S.

PS: Yes, I know tcp-md5 is pretty to very crappy,
sadly, it's still used and hard to displace :-(

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2385

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