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Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme
Hades1010 writes to mention an article in the Epoch Times (a Chinese newspaper) about a brilliant Chinese professor who has cracked her fifth encryption scheme in ten years. This one's a doozy, too: she and her team have taken out the SHA-1 scheme, which includes the (highly thought of) MD5 algorithm. As a result, the U.S. government and major corporations will cease using the scheme within the next few years. From the article: " These two main algorithms are currently the crucial technology that electronic signatures and many other password securities use throughout the international community. They are widely used in banking, securities, and e-commerce. SHA-1 has been recognized as the cornerstone for modern Internet security. According to the article, in the early stages of Wang's research, there were other data encryption researchers who tried to crack it. However, none of them succeeded. This is why in 15 years Hash research had become the domain of hopeless research in many scientists' minds. "
Because China now uses anti-satellite weapons now, so we have to "up" the evil-status a bit.
Next week, we'll hear that this same prof has some pirated DVDs
I misread that as "set the evil-bit".
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We gain the obvious: The more we know, the better off we are.
You never read any H.P Lovecraft then...
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
And I hear that Microsoft is still looking for that one person.