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

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

[Steve Davis]

If the 20 byte SHA1 is now considered insecure (with good reason), what about RIPEMD-160 which is the foundation of Bitcoin addresses?

Is that also susceptible to such an attack vector?

What does that mean for old addresses?

etc

/s


> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:04:54 +0100
> From: Tim Ruffing <tim.ruffing@mmci.uni-saarland.de>
> To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to
> 	attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers
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> On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 00:57 +0100, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> 
>> I have not worked on this since some time, so that's just thoughts,
>> but maybe it can render things much more difficult
>> than???????computing two files until the same hash is found
>> 
> 
> You basically rely on the idea that specific collisions are more
> difficult to find.?This trick or similar tricks will not help.?(And
> actually, the more files you add to the hash, the more freedom you give
> the attacker.)
> 
> Even if certain collisions are more difficult to find today (which is
> certainly true), the general rule is that someone will prove you wrong
> in a year.
> 
> Even if ignore security entirely, switching to new hash function is
> much simpler trying to fix the usage of a broken hash function.
> 
> Relying on SHA1 is hopeless. We have to get rid of it.
> 
> Best,
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:18:43 +0100
> From: Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>
> To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to
> 	attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers
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> 
> Not sure that you really read deeply what I sent, because stating that
> hashing files continuously instead of hashing the intermediate steps
> just gives more latitude to the attacker can't be true when the attacker
> has absolutely no control over the past files
> 
> I did not write this as a workaround to fix SHA1, which will be dead
> soon or later but as maybe some general concept that could possibly help
> whatever hash function you are using for objects that are not frozen but
> extending (ie the original email stating that trees might be some kind
> of worse candidates for collisions reminded me this), indeed it makes no
> sense to patch SHA1 or play around, but this kind of proposal could
> accompany the defunct
> 
> The drawback is that you have to keep the hash state when you close the
> latest hash computation in order to start the next one
> 
> Then the question is: knowing the hash state, is it as easy to find a
> collision between two files that will be computed in the next round than
> finding a collision between two files only?
> 
> Knowing that you can probably modify the hash state with some
> unpredictable patterns
> 
> Most likely the answer is: no, it's (astronomically?) more difficult
> 
> Please take it as a suggestion that might be explored (ps: I have the
> code for this if needed) rather than an affirmation, still amazed as
> shown in the few links provided (among others) that each time I raise
> this subject nobody really pays attention (what's the use case?, etc)
> and by the fact that it's apparently used by only one project in the
> world and not supported by any library
> 
> 
> Le 24/02/2017 ? 11:04, Tim Ruffing via bitcoin-dev a ?crit :
>> On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 00:57 +0100, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>>> I have not worked on this since some time, so that's just thoughts,
>>> but maybe it can render things much more difficult
>>> than       computing two files until the same hash is found
>>> 
>> You basically rely on the idea that specific collisions are more
>> difficult to find. This trick or similar tricks will not help. (And
>> actually, the more files you add to the hash, the more freedom you give
>> the attacker.)
>> 
>> Even if certain collisions are more difficult to find today (which is
>> certainly true), the general rule is that someone will prove you wrong
>> in a year.
>> 
>> Even if ignore security entirely, switching to new hash function is
>> much simpler trying to fix the usage of a broken hash function.
>> 
>> Relying on SHA1 is hopeless. We have to get rid of it.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Tim
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 17:30:49 +0100
> From: Tim Ruffing <tim.ruffing@mmci.uni-saarland.de>
> To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to
> 	attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers
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> On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 16:18 +0100, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> Not sure that you really read deeply what I sent, because stating
>> that
>> hashing files continuously instead of hashing the intermediate steps
>> just gives more latitude to the attacker can't be true when the
>> attacker
>> has absolutely no control over the past files
> What prevents the attacker to provide different past files when talking
> to parties who are still in the initial state?
> 
> Then the question is: knowing the hash state, is it as easy to find a
>> collision between two files that will be computed in the next round
>> than
>> finding a collision between two files only?
> With the original usage of the hash function, the hash state is always
> the initial state. Now that the attacker has some control over the hash
> state even. In other words, if the original use of the hash function
> was vulnerable, then your scheme is vulnerable for the initial state.
> 
> Concrete attack: If you can find x != y with H(x) = H(y), then you can
> also find m, x != y, with H(m||x) = H(m||y), just by setting m = "". 
> 
> Not sure if this is the right place to discuss that issue though...
> 
> Best,
> Tim
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:29:50 +0100
> From: Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>
> To: Tim Ruffing <tim.ruffing@mmci.uni-saarland.de>,	Bitcoin Protocol
> 	Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
> Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to
> 	attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers
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> 
> ??? apparently we are not discussing the same thing
> 
> Maybe I did not provide the right links (reading them again I myself
> don't find them so clear), see maybe again
> https://github.com/whatwg/streams/issues/33#issuecomment-28045860
> 
> a - b - c -d
> 
> hash(a)
> 
> hash(a+b)
> 
> etc
> 
> But you are not going to rehash from the beginning, then:
> 
> update a --> keep the remaining bytes a_ (+ hash state 1) --> digest
> a=hash(a)
> 
> update a_+b from hash state 1--> keep the remaining bytes b_ (+ hash
> state 2) --> digest a_+b=hash(a+b)
> 
> etc
> 
> Basically that's similar to a real time progressive hash of chunks of a
> file that you are streaming and therefore don't know what will come next
> (per opposition to hashing a file that you already have), this could
> apply to trees
> 
> This is different from something like:
> 
> hash(a)
> 
> hash(hash(a) +hash(b))
> 
> etc
> 
> There is no initial state, and the attacker can't modify what was
> already hashed, to make it more difficult you can probably modify the
> hash state N
> 
> 
> Le 24/02/2017 ? 17:30, Tim Ruffing via bitcoin-dev a ?crit :
>> On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 16:18 +0100, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>>> Not sure that you really read deeply what I sent, because stating
>>> that
>>> hashing files continuously instead of hashing the intermediate steps
>>> just gives more latitude to the attacker can't be true when the
>>> attacker
>>> has absolutely no control over the past files
>> What prevents the attacker to provide different past files when talking
>> to parties who are still in the initial state?
>> 
>> Then the question is: knowing the hash state, is it as easy to find a
>>> collision between two files that will be computed in the next round
>>> than
>>> finding a collision between two files only?
>> With the original usage of the hash function, the hash state is always
>> the initial state. Now that the attacker has some control over the hash
>> state even. In other words, if the original use of the hash function
>> was vulnerable, then your scheme is vulnerable for the initial state.
>> 
>> Concrete attack: If you can find x != y with H(x) = H(y), then you can
>> also find m, x != y, with H(m||x) = H(m||y), just by setting m = "". 
>> 
>> Not sure if this is the right place to discuss that issue though...
>> 
>> Best,
>> Tim
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:20:19 -0800
> From: Bram Cohen <bram@bittorrent.com>
> To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
> Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
> 	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
> Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Better MMR Definition
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> 
> So your idea is to cluster entries by entry time because newer things are
> more likely to leave and updating multiple things near each other is
> cheaper?
> 
> That can be done with my tool. Instead of using hashes for the values being
> stored, you use position entries. The first entry gets a value of all
> zeros, the next one a one followed by all zeros, then the next two
> correspond to the first two with the second bit flipped to one, then the
> next four the first four with the third bit flipped to one, etc. It
> probably performs a little bit better to do it two bits at a time instead
> of one so that the entries are 00, 01, 10, 11, 0001, 0010, 0011, 0101,
> 0110, 0111, 1001, etc. If you were to really use this you'd probably want
> to to add some optimizations to use the fact that the terminals fit in 64
> bits instead of 256, but it mostly works unchanged, and gets whatever
> benefits there are to this clustering plus the high performance
> implementation tricks I've built which I keep complaining that nobody's
> giving feedback on.
> 
> I'm not sold on this being a win: The empirical access patterns are
> unknown, it requires an extra cache miss per lookup to find the entry
> number, it may be that everything is optimized well enough without it for
> there to be no meaningful gains, and it's a bunch of extra complexity. What
> should be done is that a plain vanilla UTXO set solution is optimized as
> well as it can be first, and then the insertion ordering trick is tried as
> an optimization to see if it's an improvement. Without that baseline
> there's no meaningful basis for comparison, and I'm quite confident that a
> naive implementation which just allocates individual nodes will
> underperform the thing I've come up with, even without adding optimizations
> related to fitting in 64 bits.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:32:43PM -0800, Bram Cohen wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Glad we're on the same page with regard to what's possible in TXO
>>>> commitments.
>>>> 
>>>> Secondly, am I correct in saying your UTXO commitments scheme requires
>>>> random
>>>> access? While you describe it as a "merkle set", obviously to be
>> merkelized
>>>> it'll have to have an ordering of some kind. What do you propose that
>>>> ordering
>>>> to be?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> The ordering is by the bits in the hash. Technically it's a Patricia
>> Trie.
>>> I'm using 'merkle tree' to refer to basically anything with a hash root.
>> 
>> The hash of what? The values in the set?
>> 
>>>> Maybe more specifically, what exact values do you propose to be in the
>> set?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> That is unspecified in the implementation, it just takes a 256 bit value
>>> which is presumably a hash of something. The intention is to nail down a
>>> simple format and demonstrate good performance and leave those semantics
>> to
>>> a higher layer. The simplest thing would be to hash together the txid and
>>> output number.
>> 
>> Ok, so let's assume the values in the set are the unspent outpoints.
>> 
>> Since we're ordering by the hash of the values in the set, outpoints will
>> be
>> distributed uniformly in the set, and thus the access pattern of data in
>> the
>> set is uniform.
>> 
>> Now let's fast-forward 10 years. For the sake of argument, assume that for
>> every 1 UTXO in the set that corresponds to funds in someone's wallet that
>> are
>> likely to be spent, there are 2^12 = 4096 UTXO's that have been permanently
>> lost (and/or created in spam attacks) and thus will never be spent.
>> 
>> Since lost UTXO's are *also* uniformly distributed, if I'm processing a new
>> block that spends 2^12 = 4096 UTXO's, on average for each UTXO spent, I'll
>> have to update log2(4096) = 12 more digests than I would have had those
>> "dead"
>> UTXO's not existed.
>> 
>> Concretely, imagine our UTXO set had just 8 values in it, and we were
>> updating
>> two of them:
>> 
>>               #
>>              / \
>>             /   \
>>            /     \
>>           /       \
>>          /         \
>>         #           #
>>        / \         / \
>>       /   \       /   \
>>      #     .     .     #
>>     / \   / \   / \   / \
>>    .   X .   . .   . X   .
>> 
>> To mark two coins as spent, we've had to update 5 inner nodes.
>> 
>> 
>> Now let's look at what happens in an insertion-ordered TXO commitment
>> scheme.
>> For sake of argument, let's assume the best possible case, where every UTXO
>> spent in that same block was recently created. Since the UTXO's are
>> recently
>> created, chances are almost every single one of those "dead" UTXO's will
>> have
>> been created in the past. Thus, since this is an insertion-ordered data
>> structure, those UTXO's exist in an older part of the data structure that
>> our
>> new block doesn't need to modify at all.
>> 
>> Concretely, again let's imagine a TXO commitment with 8 values in it, and
>> two
>> of them being spent:
>> 
>>               #
>>              / \
>>             /   \
>>            /     \
>>           /       \
>>          /         \
>>         .           #
>>        / \         / \
>>       /   \       /   \
>>      .     .     .     #
>>     / \   / \   / \   / \
>>    .   . .   . .   . X   X
>> 
>> To mark two coins as spent, we've only had to update 3 inner nodes; while
>> our
>> tree is higher with those lost coins, those extra inner nodes are amortised
>> across all the coins we have to update.
>> 
>> 
>> The situation gets even better when we look at the *new* UTXO's that our
>> block
>> creates. Suppose our UTXO set has size n. To mark a single coin as spent,
>> we
>> have to update log2(n) inner nodes. We do get to amortise this a bit at
>> the top
>> levels in the tree, but even if we assume the amortisation is totally free,
>> we're updating at least log2(n) - log2(m) inner nodes "under" the amortised
>> nodes at the top of the tree for *each* new node.
>> 
>> Meanwhile with an insertion-ordered TXO commitment, each new UTXO added to
>> the
>> data set goes in the same place - the end. So almost none of the existing
>> data
>> needs to be touched to add the new UTXOs. Equally, the hashing required
>> for the
>> new UTXO's can be done in an incremental fashion that's very L1/L2 cache
>> friendly.
>> 
>> 
>> tl;dr: Precisely because access patterns in TXO commitments are *not*
>> uniform,
>> I think we'll find that from a L1/L2/etc cache perspective alone, TXO
>> commitments will result in better performance than UTXO commitments.
>> 
>> 
>> Now it is true that Bitcoin's current design means we'll need a map of
>> confirmed outpoints to TXO insertion order indexes. But it's not
>> particularly
>> hard to add that "metadata" to transactions on the P2P layer in the same
>> way
>> that segwit added witnesses to transactions without modifying how txids
>> were
>> calculated; if you only connect to peers who provide you with TXO index
>> information in blocks and transactions, you don't need to keep that map
>> yourself.
>> 
>> Finally, note how this makes transactions *smaller* in many circumstances:
>> it's
>> just a 8-byte max index rather than a 40 byte outpoint.
>> 
>> --
>> https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Peter Todd]

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 05:49:36PM -0600, Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> If the 20 byte SHA1 is now considered insecure (with good reason), what about RIPEMD-160 which is the foundation of Bitcoin addresses?

SHA1 is insecure because the SHA1 algorithm is insecure, not because 160bits isn't enough.

AFAIK there aren't any known weaknesses in RIPEMD160, but it also hasn't been
as closely studied as more common hash algorithms. That said, Bitcoin uses
RIPEMD160(SHA256(msg)), which may make creating collisions harder if an attack
is found than if it used RIPEMD160 alone.

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

[Steve Davis]

> On Feb 24, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 05:49:36PM -0600, Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> If the 20 byte SHA1 is now considered insecure (with good reason), what about RIPEMD-160 which is the foundation of Bitcoin addresses?
> 
> SHA1 is insecure because the SHA1 algorithm is insecure, not because 160bits isn't enough.
> 
> AFAIK there aren't any known weaknesses in RIPEMD160,

…so far. I wonder how long that vacation will last?

> but it also hasn't been
> as closely studied as more common hash algorithms.

...but we can be sure that it will be, since the dollar value held in existing utxos continues to increase...

> That said, Bitcoin uses
> RIPEMD160(SHA256(msg)), which may make creating collisions harder if an attack
> is found than if it used RIPEMD160 alone.

Does that offer any greater protection? That’s not so clear to me as the outputs (at least for p2pkh) only verify the public key against the final 20 byte hash. Specifically, in the first (notional) case the challenge would be to find a private key that has a public key that hashes to the final hash. In the second (realistic) case, you merely need to add the sha256 hash into the problem, which doesn’t seem to me to increase the difficulty by any significant amount? 


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

[Leandro Coutinho]

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Google recommeds "migrate to safer cryptographic hashes such as SHA-256 and
SHA-3"
It does not mention RIPEMD-160

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html?m=1


Em 25/02/2017 10:47, "Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> escreveu:


> On Feb 24, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 05:49:36PM -0600, Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
>> If the 20 byte SHA1 is now considered insecure (with good reason), what
about RIPEMD-160 which is the foundation of Bitcoin addresses?
>
> SHA1 is insecure because the SHA1 algorithm is insecure, not because
160bits isn't enough.
>
> AFAIK there aren't any known weaknesses in RIPEMD160,

…so far. I wonder how long that vacation will last?

> but it also hasn't been
> as closely studied as more common hash algorithms.

...but we can be sure that it will be, since the dollar value held in
existing utxos continues to increase...

> That said, Bitcoin uses
> RIPEMD160(SHA256(msg)), which may make creating collisions harder if an
attack
> is found than if it used RIPEMD160 alone.

Does that offer any greater protection? That’s not so clear to me as the
outputs (at least for p2pkh) only verify the public key against the final
20 byte hash. Specifically, in the first (notional) case the challenge
would be to find a private key that has a public key that hashes to the
final hash. In the second (realistic) case, you merely need to add the
sha256 hash into the problem, which doesn’t seem to me to increase the
difficulty by any significant amount?


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

[Ethan Heilman]

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>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 collision resistance. Assuming
RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle), collisions
can be generated in 2^80 queries (actually detecting these collisions
requires some time-memory additional trade-offs). The Bitcoin network at
the current hash rate performs roughly SHA-256 ~2^78 queries a day or 2^80
queries every four days. Without any break in RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) the
US could build an ASIC datacenter and produce RIPEMD-160 collisions for a
fraction of its yearly cryptologic budget.

The impact of collisions in RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) according to "On
Bitcoin Security in the Presence of Broken Crypto Primitives"(
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/167.pdf):

>Collisions are similar, though in this case both public keys are under the
adversary’s control, and again the adversary does not have access to the
private keys. In both scenarios, there is a question of nonrepudiation
external to the protocol itself: by presenting a second pre-image of a key
used to sign a transaction, a user/adversary can claim that his coins were
stolen.

How would such an event effect the price of Bitcoin when headlines are
"Bitcoin's Cryptography Broken"? How much money could someone make by
playing the market in this way?

For both reasons of credibility and good engineering (safety
margins) Bitcoin should strive to always use cryptography which is beyond
reproach.


On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Leandro Coutinho via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Google recommeds "migrate to safer cryptographic hashes such as SHA-256
> and SHA-3"
> It does not mention RIPEMD-160
>
> https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-
> sha1-collision.html?m=1
>
>
> Em 25/02/2017 10:47, "Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev" <bitcoin-dev@lists.
> linuxfoundation.org> escreveu:
>
>
> > On Feb 24, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 05:49:36PM -0600, Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev
> wrote:
> >> If the 20 byte SHA1 is now considered insecure (with good reason), what
> about RIPEMD-160 which is the foundation of Bitcoin addresses?
> >
> > SHA1 is insecure because the SHA1 algorithm is insecure, not because
> 160bits isn't enough.
> >
> > AFAIK there aren't any known weaknesses in RIPEMD160,
>
> …so far. I wonder how long that vacation will last?
>
> > but it also hasn't been
> > as closely studied as more common hash algorithms.
>
> ...but we can be sure that it will be, since the dollar value held in
> existing utxos continues to increase...
>
> > That said, Bitcoin uses
> > RIPEMD160(SHA256(msg)), which may make creating collisions harder if an
> attack
> > is found than if it used RIPEMD160 alone.
>
> Does that offer any greater protection? That’s not so clear to me as the
> outputs (at least for p2pkh) only verify the public key against the final
> 20 byte hash. Specifically, in the first (notional) case the challenge
> would be to find a private key that has a public key that hashes to the
> final hash. In the second (realistic) case, you merely need to add the
> sha256 hash into the problem, which doesn’t seem to me to increase the
> difficulty by any significant amount?
>
>
> /s
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Shin'ichiro Matsuo]

We should distinguish collision resistance from 2nd pre-image resistance, in general.

As previously written, we should care both hash output length and algorithm itself. The weakness of SHA-0 (preliminary version of SHA-1) was reported in 2004, then many research on the structure of SHA-1 were conducted. In the case of SHA-2, it is harder than SHA-1 to find collisions.

Existing security consideration and evaluation criteria were extensively discussed in the NIST SHA-3 competition. Please see the following sites.

https://ehash.iaik.tugraz.at/wiki/The_SHA-3_Zoo
https://ehash.iaik.tugraz.at/wiki/Cryptanalysis_Categories

We need similar analysis on RIPEMD160 and impacts of attacks on (RIPEMD160(SHA2(msg)). 

We can also refer the security assumption of hash chain in Asiacrypt 2004 Paper. 
https://home.cyber.ee/~ahtbu/timestampsec.pdf

In the discussion of SHA3 competition, we choose another hash design structure, so called "sponge structure." This leads diversity of design principles of hash function and gives resilience even when one hash design structure becomes vulnerable. As Peter Todd wrote, discussion on design structure and algorithm is important. Discussions on all of algorithm, output length and security requirements are needed.

At some future moment, we should think about transition of underlying hash functions. I’m working on this subject and will present an idea at IEEE S&B.

Shin’ichiro Matsuo


> On Feb 25, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Ethan Heilman via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> 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 collision resistance. Assuming RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle), collisions can be generated in 2^80 queries (actually detecting these collisions requires some time-memory additional trade-offs). The Bitcoin network at the current hash rate performs roughly SHA-256 ~2^78 queries a day or 2^80 queries every four days. Without any break in RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) the US could build an ASIC datacenter and produce RIPEMD-160 collisions for a fraction of its yearly cryptologic budget.
> 
> The impact of collisions in RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) according to "On Bitcoin Security in the Presence of Broken Crypto Primitives"(https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/167.pdf):
> 
> >Collisions are similar, though in this case both public keys are under the adversary’s control, and again the adversary does not have access to the private keys. In both scenarios, there is a question of nonrepudiation external to the protocol itself: by presenting a second pre-image of a key used to sign a transaction, a user/adversary can claim that his coins were stolen. 
> 
> How would such an event effect the price of Bitcoin when headlines are "Bitcoin's Cryptography Broken"? How much money could someone make by playing the market in this way? 
> 
> For both reasons of credibility and good engineering (safety margins) Bitcoin should strive to always use cryptography which is beyond reproach.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Leandro Coutinho via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Google recommeds "migrate to safer cryptographic hashes such as SHA-256 and SHA-3"
> It does not mention RIPEMD-160
> 
> https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html?m=1
> 
> 
> Em 25/02/2017 10:47, "Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev" <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> escreveu:
> 
> > On Feb 24, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 05:49:36PM -0600, Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> >> If the 20 byte SHA1 is now considered insecure (with good reason), what about RIPEMD-160 which is the foundation of Bitcoin addresses?
> >
> > SHA1 is insecure because the SHA1 algorithm is insecure, not because 160bits isn't enough.
> >
> > AFAIK there aren't any known weaknesses in RIPEMD160,
> 
> …so far. I wonder how long that vacation will last?
> 
> > but it also hasn't been
> > as closely studied as more common hash algorithms.
> 
> ...but we can be sure that it will be, since the dollar value held in existing utxos continues to increase...
> 
> > That said, Bitcoin uses
> > RIPEMD160(SHA256(msg)), which may make creating collisions harder if an attack
> > is found than if it used RIPEMD160 alone.
> 
> Does that offer any greater protection? That’s not so clear to me as the outputs (at least for p2pkh) only verify the public key against the final 20 byte hash. Specifically, in the first (notional) case the challenge would be to find a private key that has a public key that hashes to the final hash. In the second (realistic) case, you merely need to add the sha256 hash into the problem, which doesn’t seem to me to increase the difficulty by any significant amount?
> 
> 
> /s
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> 
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Henning Kopp]

Hi all,

I did not follow the whole discussion, but wanted to throw in some
literature on the failure of crypto primitives in Bitcoin.

There is a paper which discusses the problems, but does not give any
remedies: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/167.pdf

And there are also contingency plans on the wiki:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contingency_plans These are not very
detailed and my impression is that this information should be viewed
very critically (E.g., when ECDSA is broken, the suggested vague
response is "Switch to the stronger algorithm." Yeah. And "Code for
all of this should be prepared." Surely. As far as I know, there is no
such code and no-one is working on it).

Best,
Henning


On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 09:45:36AM -0800, Shin'ichiro Matsuo via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> We should distinguish collision resistance from 2nd pre-image resistance, in general.
> 
> As previously written, we should care both hash output length and algorithm itself. The weakness of SHA-0 (preliminary version of SHA-1) was reported in 2004, then many research on the structure of SHA-1 were conducted. In the case of SHA-2, it is harder than SHA-1 to find collisions.
> 
> Existing security consideration and evaluation criteria were extensively discussed in the NIST SHA-3 competition. Please see the following sites.
> 
> https://ehash.iaik.tugraz.at/wiki/The_SHA-3_Zoo
> https://ehash.iaik.tugraz.at/wiki/Cryptanalysis_Categories
> 
> We need similar analysis on RIPEMD160 and impacts of attacks on (RIPEMD160(SHA2(msg)). 
> 
> We can also refer the security assumption of hash chain in Asiacrypt 2004 Paper. 
> https://home.cyber.ee/~ahtbu/timestampsec.pdf
> 
> In the discussion of SHA3 competition, we choose another hash design structure, so called "sponge structure." This leads diversity of design principles of hash function and gives resilience even when one hash design structure becomes vulnerable. As Peter Todd wrote, discussion on design structure and algorithm is important. Discussions on all of algorithm, output length and security requirements are needed.
> 
> At some future moment, we should think about transition of underlying hash functions. I’m working on this subject and will present an idea at IEEE S&B.
> 
> Shin’ichiro Matsuo
> 
> 
> > On Feb 25, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Ethan Heilman via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> 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 collision resistance. Assuming RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle), collisions can be generated in 2^80 queries (actually detecting these collisions requires some time-memory additional trade-offs). The Bitcoin network at the current hash rate performs roughly SHA-256 ~2^78 queries a day or 2^80 queries every four days. Without any break in RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) the US could build an ASIC datacenter and produce RIPEMD-160 collisions for a fraction of its yearly cryptologic budget.
> > 
> > The impact of collisions in RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) according to "On Bitcoin Security in the Presence of Broken Crypto Primitives"(https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/167.pdf):
> > 
> > >Collisions are similar, though in this case both public keys are under the adversary’s control, and again the adversary does not have access to the private keys. In both scenarios, there is a question of nonrepudiation external to the protocol itself: by presenting a second pre-image of a key used to sign a transaction, a user/adversary can claim that his coins were stolen. 
> > 
> > How would such an event effect the price of Bitcoin when headlines are "Bitcoin's Cryptography Broken"? How much money could someone make by playing the market in this way? 
> > 
> > For both reasons of credibility and good engineering (safety margins) Bitcoin should strive to always use cryptography which is beyond reproach.
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Leandro Coutinho via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Google recommeds "migrate to safer cryptographic hashes such as SHA-256 and SHA-3"
> > It does not mention RIPEMD-160
> > 
> > https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html?m=1
> > 
> > 
> > Em 25/02/2017 10:47, "Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev" <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> escreveu:
> > 
> > > On Feb 24, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 05:49:36PM -0600, Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > >> If the 20 byte SHA1 is now considered insecure (with good reason), what about RIPEMD-160 which is the foundation of Bitcoin addresses?
> > >
> > > SHA1 is insecure because the SHA1 algorithm is insecure, not because 160bits isn't enough.
> > >
> > > AFAIK there aren't any known weaknesses in RIPEMD160,
> > 
> > …so far. I wonder how long that vacation will last?
> > 
> > > but it also hasn't been
> > > as closely studied as more common hash algorithms.
> > 
> > ...but we can be sure that it will be, since the dollar value held in existing utxos continues to increase...
> > 
> > > That said, Bitcoin uses
> > > RIPEMD160(SHA256(msg)), which may make creating collisions harder if an attack
> > > is found than if it used RIPEMD160 alone.
> > 
> > Does that offer any greater protection? That’s not so clear to me as the outputs (at least for p2pkh) only verify the public key against the final 20 byte hash. Specifically, in the first (notional) case the challenge would be to find a private key that has a public key that hashes to the final hash. In the second (realistic) case, you merely need to add the sha256 hash into the problem, which doesn’t seem to me to increase the difficulty by any significant amount?
> > 
> > 
> > /s
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> > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Alice Wonder]

On 02/25/2017 08:10 AM, 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 collision resistance.
> Assuming RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random
> oracle), collisions can be generated in 2^80 queries (actually detecting
> these collisions requires some time-memory additional trade-offs). The
> Bitcoin network at the current hash rate performs roughly SHA-256 ~2^78
> queries a day or 2^80 queries every four days.

You have to not only produce a ripemd160 collision, you have to produce 
a collision that is also a valid sha-256 hash - and that's much much 
much more difficult.

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

[Ethan Heilman]

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>You have to not only produce a ripemd160 collision, you have to produce a
collision that is also a valid sha-256 hash - and that's much much much
more difficult.

I agree that merely finding a collision in RIPEMD-160 will be hard to use
in Bitcoin.

However finding a collision in RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) via bruteforce
(2^80 queries) is not particular more difficult than finding a collision in
RIPEMD-160 via brute force. Furthermore if you find a collision in
RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) you also get a valid SHA-256 hash for which you
know the preimage.


On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Alice Wonder via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On 02/25/2017 08:10 AM, 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 collision resistance.
>> Assuming RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random
>> oracle), collisions can be generated in 2^80 queries (actually detecting
>> these collisions requires some time-memory additional trade-offs). The
>> Bitcoin network at the current hash rate performs roughly SHA-256 ~2^78
>> queries a day or 2^80 queries every four days.
>>
>
> You have to not only produce a ripemd160 collision, you have to produce a
> collision that is also a valid sha-256 hash - and that's much much much
> more difficult.
>
>
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Peter Todd]

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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 collision resistance. Assuming
> RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle), collisions

That's something that we're well aware of; there have been a few discussions on
this list about how P2SH's 160-bits is insufficient in certain use-cases such
as multisig.

However, remember that a 160-bit *security level* is sufficient, and RIPEMD160
has 160-bit security against preimage attacks. Thus things like
pay-to-pubkey-hash are perfectly secure: sure you could generate two pubkeys
that have the same RIPEMD160(SHA256()) digest, but if someone does that it
doesn't cause the Bitcoin network itself any harm, and doing so is something
you choose to do to yourself.

In any case, segwit will provide a 256-bit pay-to-witness-script-hash(1), which
provides a 128-bit security level against collision attacks.

1) https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0143.mediawiki#Native_P2WSH

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

[Watson Ladd]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> 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 collision resistance. Assuming
>> RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle), collisions
>
> That's something that we're well aware of; there have been a few discussions on
> this list about how P2SH's 160-bits is insufficient in certain use-cases such
> as multisig.
>
> However, remember that a 160-bit *security level* is sufficient, and RIPEMD160
> has 160-bit security against preimage attacks. Thus things like
> pay-to-pubkey-hash are perfectly secure: sure you could generate two pubkeys
> that have the same RIPEMD160(SHA256()) digest, but if someone does that it
> doesn't cause the Bitcoin network itself any harm, and doing so is something
> you choose to do to yourself.

P2SH is not secure against collision. I could write two scripts with
the same hash, one of which is an escrow script and the other which
pays it to me, have someone pay to the escrow script, and then get the
payment. Some formal analysis tools would ignore the unused
instructions even if human analysis would not.

>
> In any case, segwit will provide a 256-bit pay-to-witness-script-hash(1), which
> provides a 128-bit security level against collision attacks.
>
> 1) https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0143.mediawiki#Native_P2WSH
>
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Peter Todd]

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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 12:42:56PM -0800, Watson Ladd wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> 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 collision resistance. Assuming
> >> RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle), collisions
> >
> > That's something that we're well aware of; there have been a few discussions on
> > this list about how P2SH's 160-bits is insufficient in certain use-cases such
> > as multisig.
> >
> > However, remember that a 160-bit *security level* is sufficient, and RIPEMD160
> > has 160-bit security against preimage attacks. Thus things like
> > pay-to-pubkey-hash are perfectly secure: sure you could generate two pubkeys
> > that have the same RIPEMD160(SHA256()) digest, but if someone does that it
> > doesn't cause the Bitcoin network itself any harm, and doing so is something
> > you choose to do to yourself.
> 
> P2SH is not secure against collision. I could write two scripts with
> the same hash, one of which is an escrow script and the other which
> pays it to me, have someone pay to the escrow script, and then get the
> payment. Some formal analysis tools would ignore the unused
> instructions even if human analysis would not.

That's what I said: "P2SH's 160-bits is insufficient in certain use-cases such
as multisig"

Obviously any usecase where multiple people are creating a P2SH redeemScript
collaboratively is potentially vulnerable. Use-cases where the redeemScript was
created by a single-party however are _not_ vulnerable, as that party has
complete control over whether or not collisions are possible, by virtue of the
fact that they're the ones who have to make the collision happen!

Similarly, even in the multisig case, commit-reveal techniques can mitigate the
vulnerability, by forcing parties to commit to what pubkeys/hashlocks/etc.
they'll use for the script prior to pubkeys/hashlocks/etc. being revealed.
Though a better long-term approach is to use a 256-bit digest size, as segwit
does.

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

[Russell O'Connor]

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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> 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 collision resistance.
> Assuming
> > RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle),
> collisions
>
> That's something that we're well aware of; there have been a few
> discussions on
> this list about how P2SH's 160-bits is insufficient in certain use-cases
> such
> as multisig.
>
> However, remember that a 160-bit *security level* is sufficient, and
> RIPEMD160
> has 160-bit security against preimage attacks. Thus things like
> pay-to-pubkey-hash are perfectly secure: sure you could generate two
> pubkeys
> that have the same RIPEMD160(SHA256()) digest, but if someone does that it
> doesn't cause the Bitcoin network itself any harm, and doing so is
> something
> you choose to do to yourself.
>

Be aware that the issue is more problematic for more complex contracts.
For example, you are building a P2SH 2-of-2 multisig together with someone
else if you are not careful, party A can hand their key over to party B,
who can may try to generate a collision between their second key and
another 2-of-2 multisig where they control both keys. See
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012205.html

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

[Peter Todd]

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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:53:12PM -0500, Russell O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> 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 collision resistance.
> > Assuming
> > > RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle),
> > collisions
> >
> > That's something that we're well aware of; there have been a few
> > discussions on
> > this list about how P2SH's 160-bits is insufficient in certain use-cases
> > such
> > as multisig.
> >
> > However, remember that a 160-bit *security level* is sufficient, and
> > RIPEMD160
> > has 160-bit security against preimage attacks. Thus things like
> > pay-to-pubkey-hash are perfectly secure: sure you could generate two
> > pubkeys
> > that have the same RIPEMD160(SHA256()) digest, but if someone does that it
> > doesn't cause the Bitcoin network itself any harm, and doing so is
> > something
> > you choose to do to yourself.
> >
> 
> Be aware that the issue is more problematic for more complex contracts.
> For example, you are building a P2SH 2-of-2 multisig together with someone
> else if you are not careful, party A can hand their key over to party B,
> who can may try to generate a collision between their second key and
> another 2-of-2 multisig where they control both keys. See
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012205.html

I'm very aware of that, in fact I think I may have even been the first person
to post on this list the commit-reveal mitigation.

Note how I said earlier in the message you're replying to that "P2SH's 160-bits
is insufficient in certain use-cases such as multisig"

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

[Dave Scotese]

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I was under the impression that RIPEMD160(SHA256(msg)) is used to turn a
PUBLIC key (msg) into a bitcoin address, so yeah, you could identify
ANOTHER (or the same, I guess - how would you know?) public key that has
the same bitcoin address if RIPEMD-160 collisions are easy, but I don't see
how that has any effect on anyone.  Maybe I'm restating what Peter wrote.
If so, confirmation would be nice.

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:53:12PM -0500, Russell O'Connor wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <
> > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> 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 collision resistance.
> > > Assuming
> > > > RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle),
> > > collisions
> > >
> > > That's something that we're well aware of; there have been a few
> > > discussions on
> > > this list about how P2SH's 160-bits is insufficient in certain
> use-cases
> > > such
> > > as multisig.
> > >
> > > However, remember that a 160-bit *security level* is sufficient, and
> > > RIPEMD160
> > > has 160-bit security against preimage attacks. Thus things like
> > > pay-to-pubkey-hash are perfectly secure: sure you could generate two
> > > pubkeys
> > > that have the same RIPEMD160(SHA256()) digest, but if someone does
> that it
> > > doesn't cause the Bitcoin network itself any harm, and doing so is
> > > something
> > > you choose to do to yourself.
> > >
> >
> > Be aware that the issue is more problematic for more complex contracts.
> > For example, you are building a P2SH 2-of-2 multisig together with
> someone
> > else if you are not careful, party A can hand their key over to party B,
> > who can may try to generate a collision between their second key and
> > another 2-of-2 multisig where they control both keys. See
> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/
> 2016-January/012205.html
>
> I'm very aware of that, in fact I think I may have even been the first
> person
> to post on this list the commit-reveal mitigation.
>
> Note how I said earlier in the message you're replying to that "P2SH's
> 160-bits
> is insufficient in certain use-cases such as multisig"
>
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Steve Davis]

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Yea, well. I don’t think it is ethical to post instructions without an associated remediation (BIP) if you don’t see the potential attack.

I was rather hoping that we could have a fuller discussion of what the best practical response would be to such an issue?


> On Feb 25, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Dave Scotese <dscotese@litmocracy.com> wrote:
> 
> I was under the impression that RIPEMD160(SHA256(msg)) is used to turn a PUBLIC key (msg) into a bitcoin address, so yeah, you could identify ANOTHER (or the same, I guess - how would you know?) public key that has the same bitcoin address if RIPEMD-160 collisions are easy, but I don't see how that has any effect on anyone.  Maybe I'm restating what Peter wrote.  If so, confirmation would be nice.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:53:12PM -0500, Russell O'Connor wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <
> > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>> 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 collision resistance.
> > > Assuming
> > > > RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(msg)) has no flaws (i.e. is a random oracle),
> > > collisions
> > >
> > > That's something that we're well aware of; there have been a few
> > > discussions on
> > > this list about how P2SH's 160-bits is insufficient in certain use-cases
> > > such
> > > as multisig.
> > >
> > > However, remember that a 160-bit *security level* is sufficient, and
> > > RIPEMD160
> > > has 160-bit security against preimage attacks. Thus things like
> > > pay-to-pubkey-hash are perfectly secure: sure you could generate two
> > > pubkeys
> > > that have the same RIPEMD160(SHA256()) digest, but if someone does that it
> > > doesn't cause the Bitcoin network itself any harm, and doing so is
> > > something
> > > you choose to do to yourself.
> > >
> >
> > Be aware that the issue is more problematic for more complex contracts.
> > For example, you are building a P2SH 2-of-2 multisig together with someone
> > else if you are not careful, party A can hand their key over to party B,
> > who can may try to generate a collision between their second key and
> > another 2-of-2 multisig where they control both keys. See
> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012205.html <https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012205.html>
> 
> I'm very aware of that, in fact I think I may have even been the first person
> to post on this list the commit-reveal mitigation.
> 
> Note how I said earlier in the message you're replying to that "P2SH's 160-bits
> is insufficient in certain use-cases such as multisig"
> 
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Peter Todd]

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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:34:33PM -0600, Steve Davis wrote:
> Yea, well. I don’t think it is ethical to post instructions without an associated remediation (BIP) if you don’t see the potential attack.

I can't agree with you at all there: we're still at the point where the
computational costs of such attacks limit their real-world impact, which is
exactly when you want the *maximum* exposure to what they are and what the
risks are, so that people develop mitigations.

Keeping details secret tends to keep the attacks out of public view, which
might be a good trade-off in a situation where the attacks are immediately
practical and the need to deploy a fix is well understood. But we're in the
exact opposite situation.

> I was rather hoping that we could have a fuller discussion of what the best practical response would be to such an issue?

Deploying segwit's 256-bit digests is a response that's already fully coded and
ready to deploy, with the one exception of a new address format. That address
format is being actively worked on, and could be deployed relatively quickly if
needed.

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

[Steve Davis]

Hi Peter,

> On Feb 25, 2017, at 3:40 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:34:33PM -0600, Steve Davis wrote:
>> Yea, well. I don’t think it is ethical to post instructions without an associated remediation (BIP) if you don’t see the potential attack.
> 
> I can't agree with you at all there: we're still at the point where the
> computational costs of such attacks limit their real-world impact, which is
> exactly when you want the *maximum* exposure to what they are and what the
> risks are, so that people develop mitigations.
> 

I agree with the latter part of your statement but am actually much less confident about the first part… I need to run some numbers on that.

> Keeping details secret tends to keep the attacks out of public view, which
> might be a good trade-off in a situation where the attacks are immediately
> practical and the need to deploy a fix is well understood. But we're in the
> exact opposite situation.
> 
>> I was rather hoping that we could have a fuller discussion of what the best practical response would be to such an issue?
> 
> Deploying segwit's 256-bit digests is a response that's already fully coded and
> ready to deploy, with the one exception of a new address format. That address
> format is being actively worked on, and could be deployed relatively quickly if
> needed.
> 

I really, really don’t want to get into it but segwit has many aspects that are less appealing, not least of which being the amount of time it would take to reach the critical mass. 

Surely there's a number of alternative approaches which could be explored, even if only to make a fair assessment of a best response?

/s

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

[Pieter Wuille]

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On Feb 25, 2017 14:09, "Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

Hi Peter,


I really, really don’t want to get into it but segwit has many aspects that
are less appealing, not least of which being the amount of time it would
take to reach the critical mass.

Surely there's a number of alternative approaches which could be explored,
even if only to make a fair assessment of a best response?


Any alternative to move us away from RIPEMD160 would require:
* A drafting of a softfork proposal, implementation, testing, review.
* A new address format
* Miners accepting the new consensus rules
* Wallets adopting the new address format, both on the sender side and
receiver side (which requires new signatures).

I.e., exactly the same as segwit, for which most of these are already done.
And it would still only apply to wallets adopting it.

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

[Ethan Heilman]

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I strongly encourage Bitcoin to move from 80-bit collision resistance
(RIPEMD-160) to 128-bit collision resistance (SHA-256).

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Feb 25, 2017 14:09, "Steve Davis via bitcoin-dev" <bitcoin-dev@lists.
> linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
>
> I really, really don’t want to get into it but segwit has many aspects
> that are less appealing, not least of which being the amount of time it
> would take to reach the critical mass.
>
> Surely there's a number of alternative approaches which could be explored,
> even if only to make a fair assessment of a best response?
>
>
> Any alternative to move us away from RIPEMD160 would require:
> * A drafting of a softfork proposal, implementation, testing, review.
> * A new address format
> * Miners accepting the new consensus rules
> * Wallets adopting the new address format, both on the sender side and
> receiver side (which requires new signatures).
>
> I.e., exactly the same as segwit, for which most of these are already
> done. And it would still only apply to wallets adopting it.
>
> --
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>
>
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Steve Davis]

Hi Pieter,

> On Feb 25, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Any alternative to move us away from RIPEMD160 would require:

> <snipped>

“Any alternative”? What about reverting to:

[<public_key>, OP_CHECKSIG]

or perhaps later

[<“compressed” public_key>, OP_CHECKSIG]

This appears to get away from the issue without introducing a lot of other concerns?

(IIRC the RIPEMD thing was justified on convenience and compactness).

Could that be the alternative?

/s

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

[Pieter Wuille]

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On Feb 25, 2017 22:26, "Steve Davis" <steven.charles.davis@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Pieter,

> On Feb 25, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Any alternative to move us away from RIPEMD160 would require:

> <snipped>

“Any alternative”? What about reverting to:

[<public_key>, OP_CHECKSIG]


snip


Could that be the alternative?


Ok, fair enough, that is an alternative that avoids the 160-bit hash
function, but not where it matters. The 80-bit collision attack only
applies to jointly constructed addresses like multisig P2SH, not single-key
ones. As far as I know for those we only rely preimage security, and
RIPEMD160 has 160 bit security there, which is even more than our ECDSA
signatures offer.

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

[Steve Davis]

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> On Feb 26, 2017, at 12:36 AM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The 80-bit collision attack only applies to jointly constructed addresses like multisig P2SH, not single-key ones.

That’s the part I’m less convinced about, and why I asked the original question re SHA1 vs RIPEMD. 

I’m checking my own numbers (and as you’ll appreciate it’s a powers of ten thing), but I do see a vector. Which would mean that if RIPEMD were weakened in any way, single-key transactions could suddenly become badly exposed.


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

[Steve Davis]

> On Feb 26, 2017, at 1:36 AM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Typical hash function breaks produce collision attacks, while a preimage attack is needed to reduce single-key address security.

Thank you Pieter - that was really helpful. I realize now that I was thinking of a preimage attack but had mistakenly assumed that the birthday bound applied...

So the unit operation: [genkeypair; ripemd160(sha256(pubkey));check_utxoset] would need to be performed 2.9*10^42 and not (as I had first calculated) 2.4*10^18. 

Oops. My bad.

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

[Leandro Coutinho]

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If people split their bitcoins in multiple addresses, then maybe there
would be no need to worry(?), because the computational cost would be
higher than what the attacker would get.


From Google:
https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html

*Here are some numbers that give a sense of how large scale this
computation was: *

   - *Nine quintillion (9,223,372,036,854,775,808) SHA1 computations in
   total*
   - *6,500 years of CPU computation to complete the attack first phase*
   - *110 years of GPU computation to complete the second phase*


https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html
Richest address: 124,178 BTC ($142,853,079 USD)



On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:34:33PM -0600, Steve Davis wrote:
> > Yea, well. I don’t think it is ethical to post instructions without an
> associated remediation (BIP) if you don’t see the potential attack.
>
> I can't agree with you at all there: we're still at the point where the
> computational costs of such attacks limit their real-world impact, which is
> exactly when you want the *maximum* exposure to what they are and what the
> risks are, so that people develop mitigations.
>
> Keeping details secret tends to keep the attacks out of public view, which
> might be a good trade-off in a situation where the attacks are immediately
> practical and the need to deploy a fix is well understood. But we're in the
> exact opposite situation.
>
> > I was rather hoping that we could have a fuller discussion of what the
> best practical response would be to such an issue?
>
> Deploying segwit's 256-bit digests is a response that's already fully
> coded and
> ready to deploy, with the one exception of a new address format. That
> address
> format is being actively worked on, and could be deployed relatively
> quickly if
> needed.
>
> --
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>
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[bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Peter Todd]

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Worth noting: the impact of the SHA1 collison attack on Git is *not* limited
only to maintainers making maliciously colliding Git commits, but also
third-party's submitting pull-reqs containing commits, trees, and especially
files for which collisions have been found. This is likely to be exploitable in
practice with binary files, as reviewers aren't going to necessarily notice
garbage at the end of a file needed for the attack; if the attack can be
extended to constricted character sets like unicode or ASCII, we're in trouble
in general.

Concretely, I could prepare a pair of files with the same SHA1 hash, taking
into account the header that Git prepends when hashing files. I'd then submit
that pull-req to a project with the "clean" version of that file. Once the
maintainer merges my pull-req, possibly PGP signing the git commit, I then take
that signature and distribute the same repo, but with the "clean" version
replaced by the malicious version of the file.

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

[Peter Todd]

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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:14:09PM -0500, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Worth noting: the impact of the SHA1 collison attack on Git is *not* limited
> only to maintainers making maliciously colliding Git commits, but also
> third-party's submitting pull-reqs containing commits, trees, and especially
> files for which collisions have been found. This is likely to be exploitable in
> practice with binary files, as reviewers aren't going to necessarily notice
> garbage at the end of a file needed for the attack; if the attack can be
> extended to constricted character sets like unicode or ASCII, we're in trouble
> in general.
> 
> Concretely, I could prepare a pair of files with the same SHA1 hash, taking
> into account the header that Git prepends when hashing files. I'd then submit
> that pull-req to a project with the "clean" version of that file. Once the
> maintainer merges my pull-req, possibly PGP signing the git commit, I then take
> that signature and distribute the same repo, but with the "clean" version
> replaced by the malicious version of the file.

Thinking about this a bit more, the most concerning avenue of attack is likely
to be tree objects, as I'll bet you you can construct tree objs with garbage at
the end that many review tools don't pick up on. :(

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

[Aymeric Vitte]

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Maybe not, unlike frozen objects (certificates, etc), trees are supposed
to extend

Then you can perform progressive hash operations on the objects, ie
instead of hashing the intermediate hash of the objects you do it
continuously (ie instead of hashing the hash of hash file a + hash file
b + hash file c, wait for file d and then do the same, instead hash(file
a + file b + file c), when d comes compute the hash of (file a + file b
+ file c + file d), which implies each time to keep the intermediary
hash state because you are not going to recompute everything from the
beginning)

I have not worked on this since some time, so that's just thoughts, but
maybe it can render things much more difficult than computing two files
until the same hash is found

The only living example I know implementing this is the Tor protocol,
fact apparently unknown, this is probably why nobody cares and nobody is
willing to take it into account (please follow bwd/fwd [1] and see [2]),
this is not existing in any crypto implementations, unless you hack into
it, and this applies to progressive encryption too

[1]
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcrypto-comments/2013Feb/0018.html


[2] https://github.com/whatwg/streams/issues/33#issuecomment-28554151


Le 23/02/2017 à 22:28, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev a écrit :
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:14:09PM -0500, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> Worth noting: the impact of the SHA1 collison attack on Git is *not* limited
>> only to maintainers making maliciously colliding Git commits, but also
>> third-party's submitting pull-reqs containing commits, trees, and especially
>> files for which collisions have been found. This is likely to be exploitable in
>> practice with binary files, as reviewers aren't going to necessarily notice
>> garbage at the end of a file needed for the attack; if the attack can be
>> extended to constricted character sets like unicode or ASCII, we're in trouble
>> in general.
>>
>> Concretely, I could prepare a pair of files with the same SHA1 hash, taking
>> into account the header that Git prepends when hashing files. I'd then submit
>> that pull-req to a project with the "clean" version of that file. Once the
>> maintainer merges my pull-req, possibly PGP signing the git commit, I then take
>> that signature and distribute the same repo, but with the "clean" version
>> replaced by the malicious version of the file.
> Thinking about this a bit more, the most concerning avenue of attack is likely
> to be tree objects, as I'll bet you you can construct tree objs with garbage at
> the end that many review tools don't pick up on. :(
>
>
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Tim Ruffing]

On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 00:57 +0100, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> 
> I have not worked on this since some time, so that's just thoughts,
> but maybe it can render things much more difficult
> than       computing two files until the same hash is found
> 

You basically rely on the idea that specific collisions are more
difficult to find. This trick or similar tricks will not help. (And
actually, the more files you add to the hash, the more freedom you give
the attacker.)

Even if certain collisions are more difficult to find today (which is
certainly true), the general rule is that someone will prove you wrong
in a year.

Even if ignore security entirely, switching to new hash function is
much simpler trying to fix the usage of a broken hash function.

Relying on SHA1 is hopeless. We have to get rid of it.

Best,
Tim

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

[Aymeric Vitte]

Not sure that you really read deeply what I sent, because stating that
hashing files continuously instead of hashing the intermediate steps
just gives more latitude to the attacker can't be true when the attacker
has absolutely no control over the past files

I did not write this as a workaround to fix SHA1, which will be dead
soon or later but as maybe some general concept that could possibly help
whatever hash function you are using for objects that are not frozen but
extending (ie the original email stating that trees might be some kind
of worse candidates for collisions reminded me this), indeed it makes no
sense to patch SHA1 or play around, but this kind of proposal could
accompany the defunct

The drawback is that you have to keep the hash state when you close the
latest hash computation in order to start the next one

Then the question is: knowing the hash state, is it as easy to find a
collision between two files that will be computed in the next round than
finding a collision between two files only?

Knowing that you can probably modify the hash state with some
unpredictable patterns

Most likely the answer is: no, it's (astronomically?) more difficult

Please take it as a suggestion that might be explored (ps: I have the
code for this if needed) rather than an affirmation, still amazed as
shown in the few links provided (among others) that each time I raise
this subject nobody really pays attention (what's the use case?, etc)
and by the fact that it's apparently used by only one project in the
world and not supported by any library


Le 24/02/2017 à 11:04, Tim Ruffing via bitcoin-dev a écrit :
> On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 00:57 +0100, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> I have not worked on this since some time, so that's just thoughts,
>> but maybe it can render things much more difficult
>> than       computing two files until the same hash is found
>>
> You basically rely on the idea that specific collisions are more
> difficult to find. This trick or similar tricks will not help. (And
> actually, the more files you add to the hash, the more freedom you give
> the attacker.)
>
> Even if certain collisions are more difficult to find today (which is
> certainly true), the general rule is that someone will prove you wrong
> in a year.
>
> Even if ignore security entirely, switching to new hash function is
> much simpler trying to fix the usage of a broken hash function.
>
> Relying on SHA1 is hopeless. We have to get rid of it.
>
> Best,
> Tim
>
>
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Re: [bitcoin-dev] SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers

[Tim Ruffing]

On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 16:18 +0100, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Not sure that you really read deeply what I sent, because stating
> that
> hashing files continuously instead of hashing the intermediate steps
> just gives more latitude to the attacker can't be true when the
> attacker
> has absolutely no control over the past files
What prevents the attacker to provide different past files when talking
to parties who are still in the initial state?

Then the question is: knowing the hash state, is it as easy to find a
> collision between two files that will be computed in the next round
> than
> finding a collision between two files only?
With the original usage of the hash function, the hash state is always
the initial state. Now that the attacker has some control over the hash
state even. In other words, if the original use of the hash function
was vulnerable, then your scheme is vulnerable for the initial state.

Concrete attack: If you can find x != y with H(x) = H(y), then you can
also find m, x != y, with H(m||x) = H(m||y), just by setting m = "". 

Not sure if this is the right place to discuss that issue though...

Best,
Tim

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

[Aymeric Vitte]

??? apparently we are not discussing the same thing

Maybe I did not provide the right links (reading them again I myself
don't find them so clear), see maybe again
https://github.com/whatwg/streams/issues/33#issuecomment-28045860

a - b - c -d

hash(a)

hash(a+b)

etc

But you are not going to rehash from the beginning, then:

update a --> keep the remaining bytes a_ (+ hash state 1) --> digest
a=hash(a)

update a_+b from hash state 1--> keep the remaining bytes b_ (+ hash
state 2) --> digest a_+b=hash(a+b)

etc

Basically that's similar to a real time progressive hash of chunks of a
file that you are streaming and therefore don't know what will come next
(per opposition to hashing a file that you already have), this could
apply to trees

This is different from something like:

hash(a)

hash(hash(a) +hash(b))

etc

There is no initial state, and the attacker can't modify what was
already hashed, to make it more difficult you can probably modify the
hash state N


Le 24/02/2017 à 17:30, Tim Ruffing via bitcoin-dev a écrit :
> On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 16:18 +0100, Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> Not sure that you really read deeply what I sent, because stating
>> that
>> hashing files continuously instead of hashing the intermediate steps
>> just gives more latitude to the attacker can't be true when the
>> attacker
>> has absolutely no control over the past files
> What prevents the attacker to provide different past files when talking
> to parties who are still in the initial state?
>
> Then the question is: knowing the hash state, is it as easy to find a
>> collision between two files that will be computed in the next round
>> than
>> finding a collision between two files only?
> With the original usage of the hash function, the hash state is always
> the initial state. Now that the attacker has some control over the hash
> state even. In other words, if the original use of the hash function
> was vulnerable, then your scheme is vulnerable for the initial state.
>
> Concrete attack: If you can find x != y with H(x) = H(y), then you can
> also find m, x != y, with H(m||x) = H(m||y), just by setting m = "". 
>
> Not sure if this is the right place to discuss that issue though...
>
> Best,
> Tim
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