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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:19:10 -0500
bram writes:
> In the RIPEMD-160 spec it gives a variant which churns out 320 bits but
> has the same level of security (isn't any more collision resistant than
> the original.) In practice the lack of increase in security shouldn't be a
> problem since 160 bits is more than enough entropy to power the entire
> world for many years to come.
Depends on the application. A hash of 160 bits has only 80 bits
strength against birthday attacks.
Perry
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:15:22