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I guess 2004 was a crazy year for cryptography.
by jgale 13y ago
I guess 2004 was a crazy year for cryptography.
- ihsw 13y agoIt's the year 64-bit CPUs became consumer commodoties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_processor_timeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_process...
- pbsd 13y agoIndeed it was. Wang's breakthrough work [1,2] broke most of the common hash functions at the time, and later also SHA-1 [3]. The SHA-3 competition was motivated by this streak of new successful attacks. [1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199 http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199 [2] http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/archive/2005/EUROCRYPT/2868/2868.pdf http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/archive/2005/EUROCRYPT/2868/286... [3] http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11535218_2 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11535218_2