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New, Faster Attack against SHA-1 Revealed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-so-safe-anymore dept.

VxSote writes "According to Bruce Schneier's blog, a team of Chinese cryptographers has announced new results against SHA-1 that speed up the time required to find collisions compared to their previously published attack. Schneier says that a SHA-1 collision search is now 'squarely in the realm of feasibility,' and that further improvements are expected."

2 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. Hacker and Communist Combined by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They are among the most dangerous. We should never let them enter the states.

  2. Re:Well that would assume a few things by Synli · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Grow up. You're just another paranoid moron.

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