On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson rnnelson@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.
For those of us who do not know...what the heck is a Grawp attack? Does it involve generating hash collisions?
-Chad