Thursday, November 4, 2010

8,4-8.5, 8.7 due on November 5

1. When I finished the reading, my summary thoughts were "I guess I don't understand how hash functions work." In 8.7 it didn't sound like like the hash function was much different that the modes of operation found in chapter 4. I also didn't understand the multi-collisions section.
2. The birthday attack is really interesting. It is cool that it is using a probability concept in cryptography. It sounds like there a 70% chance that there are two people in the class with the same birthday.

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