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A Competition To Replace SHA-1

Posted by kdawson on from the securing-government-bits dept.

SHA who? writes "In light of recent attacks on SHA-1, NIST is preparing for a competition to augment and revise the current Secure Hash Standard. The public competition will be run much like the development process for the Advance Encryption Standard, and is expected to take 3 years. As a first step, NIST is publishing draft minimum acceptability requirements, submission requirements, and evaluation criteria for candidate algorithms, and requests public comment by April 27, 2007. NIST has ordered Federal agencies to stop using SHA-1 and instead to use the SHA-2 family of hash functions."

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  1. How long before we get by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...the magical SHA-24M?

  2. Interesting.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    NIST is preparing for a competition to augment and revise the current Secure Hash Standard.

    I guess society is getting more liberal about drug use. I mean, a competition to secure hash? Cool!

    Now, we just need a competition for securing pot, coke, meth, etc....

  3. ROT-7 by Chapter80 · · Score: 1, Funny
    Rot-7. Everyone's doing ROT-13. I'm going to suggest Rot-7.

    Think about it. You walk into a video store and you see Rot-13 and right next to it you see Rot-7 --which one you gonna spring for?

    Not 13. Seven. Seven Little monkeys sitting on a fence...

  4. Perfect Solution... by evilviper · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a perfect solution to the hashing problem, for verifying the data integrity between two points...

    You simply have to find autistic twins. The one at the source looks through the MB file, then writes a hash, explaining that it "smells like 5 green triangles". If the twin at the destination agrees, you know you have a match.

    It's nearly impossible, even to brute-force this method... I mean, you need to covertly aquire a sample of their DNA, and wait several years for the clone to mature.

    Of course, this method's weakness is that it doesn't scale-up effectively. There are only so many autistic twins out there, and human cloning technology is still quite expensive.

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    1. Re:Perfect Solution... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      You simply have to find autistic twins. The one at the source looks through the MB file, then writes a hash, explaining that it "smells like 5 green triangles". If the twin at the destination agrees, you know you have a match.
      You're a horrible person.

      If you really knew autistic children you'd know that nothing smells like 5 green triangles to them. Four, at most.
    2. Re:Perfect Solution... by T5 · · Score: 2, Funny

      The problem with your idea is that you're post smells like 5 green triangles too! As do a lot of other posts on /. Like this one.

  5. Re:Moo... by swillden · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...or whatever sound that Elk make ;-)

    They make a variety of sounds, most of them surprisingly high and squeaky for such large animals.

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