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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."

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  1. Recommended hash algorithm by VE3MTM · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So now that SHA-1 has been rendered largely useless for any security application, what is the current "recommended" cryptographic hash algorithm? One of the SHA-2 variants (SHA-256, for example)?

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