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Re: [TLS] Collisions (Re: Nico's suggestions - Re: Consensus Call:

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 09:31 UTC

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Cc: "Kemp, David P." <DPKemp@missi.ncsc.mil>, tls@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [TLS] Collisions (Re: Nico's suggestions - Re: Consensus Call:
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Marsh Ray <marsh@extendedsubset.com> writes:

> Alternatively, if we determine that indeed the non-collision-resistance
> of the hash function is the root of all remaining concerns that would be
> very positive. We could solve them all in one stroke with
> s/FNV-1a/SHA-256/g.

If collision-resistance is a required property (I'm not convinced yet),
I believe we need hash agility for the possibility that SHA-256 is weak.

/Simon

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