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logicrime | 10 years ago

Somebody else in this thread was talking about BLAKE2, which I cast a cursory glance at. It seems pretty cool, claims to evade the length-extension 'issues' that SHA-1 has.

Wikipedia indicates that there has been at least some progress as far as cryptanalysis goes, but even with that being said, there's always that lingering 'but what if' about anything NSA-related.

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tptacek|10 years ago

SHA-2 is also length-extendable, which means you have to be careful when you use it to build a MAC. (That's why I like the truncated version).

No cryptographer I know takes these particular "what-if's" seriously. They appear to come exclusively from non-cryptographers reacting to anything that NIST touched.