Description
Meow hash 0.5/calico does not sufficiently thwart key recovery by an attacker who can query whether there's a collision in the bottom bits of the hashes of two messages, as demonstrated by an attack against a long-running web service that allows the attacker to infer collisions by measuring timing differences.
Published: 2021-07-28
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-24164 Meow hash 0.5/calico does not sufficiently thwart key recovery by an attacker who can query whether there's a collision in the bottom bits of the hashes of two messages, as demonstrated by an attack against a long-running web service that allows the attacker to infer collisions by measuring timing differences.
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Meow Hash Project Meow Hash
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:23:01.320Z

Reserved: 2021-07-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-37606

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-07-30T14:15:22.153

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:15:30.810

Link: CVE-2021-37606

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