Re: [saag] Revision of "Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes in Internet Protocols"

On 11/08/2012 02:21 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>> Greetings again. Bruce Schneier and I have started an update to RFC 4270,
>> "Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes in Internet Protocols". This revision is
>> meant to deal with new and more devastating attacks on MD5, the fact that
>> SHA-1 collisions will be financially feasible in the foreseeable future, and
>> NIST's upcoming SHA-3 announcements. We expect to keep this revision
>> process open for at least five months because NIST probably won't finalize
>> the parameters and naming and so on for KECCAK until then; that is, we
>> won't send this to RFC Editor until SHA-3 is finalized. Please take a look at
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoffman-schneier-4270bis
> 
> Is there time in the SAAG session today to run through the major changes?

Plan is for Paul to do that at open-mic without slides, but it'll be
March-ish before NIST have the parameters AIUI so there's time. We also
plan to AD sponsor this so it'll get an IETF LC, and might be better to
see presented at IETF-86 around when that LC will be happening.

S.

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