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Re: SHA1 broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Howe)
Tue Feb 22 11:58:57 2005
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:53:53 +0000
From: Dave Howe <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
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Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> I believe you substantially misunderstood my statements, 2^69 work is
> doable _now_. 2^55 work was performed in 72 hours in 1998, scaling
> forward the 7 years to the present (and hence through known data) leads
> to a situation where the 2^69 work is achievable today in a reasonable
> timeframe (3 days), assuming reasonable quantities of available money
> ($500,000US). There is no guessing about what the future holds for this,
> the 2^69 work is NOW.
I wasn't aware that FPGA technology had improved that much if any - feel
free to correct my misapprehension in that area though :)
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