SHA-1 Broken

By Murk | Published: February 20, 2005

SHA-1 which is key to many cryptographic protocols, e.g. PGP, SSH, and the cryptography behind shopping online has been broken.

It isn’t currently a major issue as large resources are needed, however, work will need to be done to replace the affected algorithms before improvements in technology and in the algorithms make the attack more feasible.

Additional: Bruce Schneier has just written on this issue.

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  1. By Dr. Mellow on March 20, 2005 at 2:40 pm

    SHA-1 Broken

    Interesting: SHA-1 encryption has been broken. SHA-1 is a key component to many cryptographic protocols (PGP, SSH, cryptography used for online shopping, e.g.). At this point, it’s not really something to be worried about because it takes very large re…

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