Re: SHA1 weaknesses...

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%sun.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:09, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> There's no need to rush out and 
> change anything because of this, better to wait until we know whether 
> SHA-2 or Whirlpool is the way to go.

strongly agreed.   And I may be mistaken but my understanding is that
we're still waiting for the researchers to show all their work; a better
understanding of their attack should influence whether to go with SHA-2,
whirlpool, or some yet-to-be-designed hash algorithm.

						- Bill