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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:14 ADT
Anonymous (nobody@replay.com)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 19:18:41 +0200
>What I see wrong with this is that it is voodoo, not analysis.
The CBC part is voodoo, but hashing itself is a solid practice:
With a good hash, it requires an average of x effort to give the hash
result a property shared by 1/x results. If not, you can easily make
collisions on results with some kinds of propertiy. Hash functions aren't
allowed to do that. The only assumption required is that the system is not
using a large amount of effort against your hash.
I've gotta go now, so that somewhat abridged, inaccurate, and unqualified
explanation will have to do for now.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:14 ADT