Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

2017-02-25 Thread Watson Ladd via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Ethan Heilman via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> >SHA1 is insecure because the SHA1 algorithm is insecure, not because >> 160bits isn't enough. >> >> I would argue that 160-bits isn't enough for

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Time to worry about 80-bit collision attacks or not?

2016-01-08 Thread Watson Ladd via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 7:02 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: >> >> Matt Corallo writes: >> > Indeed, anything which uses P2SH is obviously vulnerable if there is >> > an attack on RIPEMD160 which reduces it's security only marginall

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Time to worry about 80-bit collision attacks or not?

2016-01-07 Thread Watson Ladd via bitcoin-dev
On Jan 7, 2016 5:22 PM, "Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Pieter Wuille wrote: >> >> Bitcoin does have parts that rely on economic arguments for security or privacy, but can we please stick to using cryptography tha