Re: SHA-1 broken

[Kent Borg <kentborg@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:56:27PM +0200, Gadi Evron wrote:
> Now, we've all seen this coming for a while.
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html
> 
> Where do we go from here?

I am feeling smug that in a project I am working on I earlier decided
our integrity hashes would be a concatenation of MD5 and SHA-1, not
that that's a fix, but it helps.

I am also appreciating that hashes are used (this project included)
for many different things, not all of which are directly affected by
this break.  Yes, this is a bad omen for the longevity of SHA-1 for
other uses, so we will keep an eye on it.

Something I am intrigued about is more sophiticated compositions of,
say, SHA-1 and MD5.

-kb