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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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