On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Russell N. Nelson -
rnnelson
<rnnelson(a)clarkson.edu> wrote:
It is meaningless to talk about cryptography
without a threat model, just as Robert says. Is anybody actually attacking us? Or are we
worried about accidental collisions?
I believe it began as accidental collisions, then everyone promptly
put on their tinfoil hats and started talking about a hypothetical
vandal who has the time and desire to generate hash collisions.
Having run a wiki which I eventually abandoned due to various "Grawp
attacks", I can assure you that there's nothing hypothetical about it.