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Storm brewing over SHA-1 as further breaks are found
Robert Lemos, 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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Storm brewing over SHA-1 as further breaks are found 2005-09-04
catfish (1 replies)
Would it be safe to run both sha1 and md5? I assume they can't collide both at the same time?

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