SHA-1 weakness found
Posted on August 17, 2004
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The crypto world is all atitter today about the possibility that collisions can be easily computed for the SHA-1 hash algorithm, as Freedom to Tinker notes in “SHA-1 break rumoured”.
Its interesting stuff, despite the fact that the authors of the original work seem to have broken a not-SHA-1 algorithm but rather something approxomating it. Seems smarter minds than I think it ought to be fairly trivial to extend it to SHA-1 proper.
Why does this matter to you? Because SHA-1 is probably the most widely-used hash algorithm available. Why doesn’t this matter to you? No one cares enough about your data to bother making the effort to steal it.
Death to SHA-1, long live ROT-13!