SHA Cryptanalysis Paper Online
Schneier blogs about the Chinese researchers who broke the SHA-1 hash function. Here's and update:
They will present it at the Crypto conference in August. I believe they didn't post it because Crypto requires that submitted papers not be previously published, and they misunderstood that to mean that it couldn't be widely distributed in any way.
Their
original notice. [PDF]
Cryptome has a copy of the paper on the web "
Finding Collisions in the Full SHA-1," by Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu.
Posted by volubis at June 24, 2005 03:11 PM