At death’s door for years, widely used SHA1 function is now dead @ AskWoody

At death’s door for years, widely used SHA1 function is now dead

Posted on February 23, 2017 at 09:59 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

The two most common file encryption/hashing methods are now officially compromised. MD5 was hacked years ago. Now, Google has come up with an algorithm that generates two different PDF files with the same SHA1 hash.

Still unscathed: SHA-256 and SHA-3

Important article by Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

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