, SecurityFocus 2005-08-23
Three Chinese researchers have further refined an attack on the encryption standard frequently used to digitally sign documents, making the attack 64 times faster and leaving cryptographers to debate whether the standard, known as the Secure Hash Algorithm, should be phased out more quickly than planned.
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I would not say "you can see the cracks in the ceiling" just because they are quicker in finding two random documents whose hashes collide. That's far from finding a second document given the first one's hash.
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