Note SHA-256 length extension attack, HMAC, replay attacks

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Note SHA-256 length extension attack, HMAC, replay attacks #128

Open david-a-wheeler opened 1 year ago

david-a-wheeler commented 1 year ago

For more:

https://kerkour.com/sha256-length-extension-attacks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36058754

nmav commented 4 months ago

Mentioning that a hash should not be used as a MAC with the length extension attack example aligns with the message of not creating own cryptography when it exists. For message authentication codes, HMAC is good for a historical context, and mentioning the modern MACs such as KMAC - SHA3-based (NIST.SP.800-185), and universal hashes such as poly1305 would make sense.