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Re: SHA-1 cracked

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Tue Feb 22 12:06:22 2005

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:49:55 -0500


 > ... a team has found collisions in full SHA-1.  It's
 > probably not a practical threat today, since it takes
 > 2^69 operations to do it ...

In the perspective of scale department, there
are approximately 2^60 individual insects on
this planet, of which 2^50 are ants.

--dan


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