[cabfpub] draft-hoffman-schneier-4270bis-01: Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes in Internet Protocols

Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) eddy_nigg at startcom.org
Fri Nov 9 19:08:24 UTC 2012


On 11/09/2012 11:42 AM, From Gervase Markham:
> On 08/11/12 22:46, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:
>> Nice, except a small typo (if somebody wants to bother sending it to
>> Hoffman or Schneier :-) )
>>
>>     2^8 * 2^8.4, or about US$86K in 2015
>>     2^7 * 2^8.4, or about US$43K in 2017
>>     2^5 * 2^8.4, or about US$10K in 2019
>>     2^1 * 2^8.4, or about*US$700*  in 2021
>
> Why is that a typo?

Ah - during the quick read I didn't notice the *K* in the preceding 
entries. Pure logic made me expect the last entry to be less than 
preceding ones. Which it of course is.


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