Weakness in SHA-1

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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 vedaal at hush.com wrote:

> if dh/dsa can be modified to accept greater than 160 size and use sha 
> 256, great, if not, then it might be prudent to look into a new hash 
> design that would be non md5/non sha-1 based that would still allow 
> dh/dsa signing at the 160 level
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how about RIPEMD-160?

100% compatible with DSS (DSA), already part of GnuPG and it's neither SHA 
nor MD5 based.

even without a weakness in any flavors of SHA i'd like to see DSA (the 
scalable algorithm) formally adopted into larger varieties of DSS (the 
current standard) to allow larger hashes and larger keys. i guess if/when 
that happens DSS will become DSS-0 and larger variants will become DSS-1, 
DSS-2, etc.


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