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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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Re: Unfortunately, not necessarily true. 2005-09-04
Ramiro Rela
I agree with Roger, but the odds of finding such a subtle way to tamper a document are exremely low.

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 firs...

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