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Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) by stolsvik on Saturday December 17, 2016 @07:36PM (#13203637)
Hashes: What about xor'ing together hashes from two or more algos? Even if one just hashed to all-1, it wouldn't matter.
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Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) by Natanael_L on Sunday December 18, 2016 @02:33PM (#13207167)
Only if the hash algorithms aren't correlated, they should ideally be of different designs.
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Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) by loup-vaillant on Sunday December 18, 2016 @03:21AM (#13204893)
Dunno. Looks promising.
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