Hello Valdis, On Wednesday 16 February 2005 19:08, you produced the following piece of wisdom: [SNIP] > And if it's a crew with a 400K machine zombie net, 3 days. Maybe a week > given that most of the boxes are consumer-grade machines. > > Consider it a "given" that there's at least one "somebody" *already* > situated in that target space... Granted. But what would those "somebody" find? Maybe it is possible to forge a message that would have the same hash as another, given, message. What is the probability of such a forged message to make any sense? More, to make any sense in an "interesting" way for those "somebody"? I fully agree that the basis for non-repudiation has been shaken: someone may claim that (s)he did not sign a message, since it may be possible to forge. But I won't lose sleep because of that. Time to apply for those crypto research funds, though ;-) Cheers, Lionel -- "To understand how progress failed to make our lives easier, please press 3" Lionel Ferette BELNET CERT Coordinator Tel: +32 2 7903385 http://cert.belnet.be/ Fax: +33 2 7903375 PGP Key Id: 0x5662FD4B
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