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Re: [TLS] Curve25519 and TLS

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 23 June 2014 06:36 UTC

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On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:24 AM, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Why wouldn't it be? If H(m)=H(m'), that's just as much a collision as
>>> if H(m || stuff)=H(m' || stuff).
>> 
>> 
>> Well, this isn't quite the two cases we are considering, since we are
>> computing either:
>> 
>> HMAC(Key, stuff)
>> 
>> or:
>> 
>> HMAC(Key, H(stuff))
>> 
>> with:
>> - stuff being under partial control of the attacker and
>> - the Key being subject to the issue you raise in the message
>> that started this thread.
> 
> HMAC is H(key || H(stuff)) right? So it turns into H(key || H(stuff))
> vs H(key || H(H(stuff))). (Yes, there is padding: that's an injective
> function, so doesn't matter for this analysis). Once again a collision
> means stuff equals stuff both ways.

Bellare showed that weakening of the collision resistance in the underlying hash doesn't matter, right? <http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/papers/hmac-new.html>? I haven't seen any refutation or weakening of that paper, but I could have missed it.

--Paul Hoffman

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