Weaknesses in SHA-1

[David Shaw]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 05:44:11PM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > I think history shows that any uncommon algorithm is going to be used 
> > simply because it's there...
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> history also shows that a weakness in an encryption primitive is more 
> likely to be discovered ~after~ it becomes popular and widely used.

Absolutely.  Breaking a widely used algorithm gets you interviewed.
Breaking an algorithm that barely anyone uses get you nothing.

Thus, we can guarantee that Tiger is never cracked by not using it. ;)

David