SHA-1 Broken by Faster Method

The SHA-1 encryption, now widely used for most cryptology applications, has been broken by a faster method, with research done by Xiaoyun Wang, Andrew Yao and Frances Yao. The new method can crack the encryption in 263, just slightly better than their previous effort of 269, and better than the brute force method of 280. The researches said that over the coming month they will revise their work to possbily improve it.

I’m still surprised that most things (including the US govenment and SSL) still use SHA-1, and haven’t moved onto a variant of SHA-2 (eg: SHA-384, SHA-512, etc.).

POSTED BY Administrator ON 08.19.05 @ 10:28 pm |

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  1. what is SHA???

    Comment by Free PSP Games Download — September 4, 2008 @ 3:53 am

  2. thanks for the info!

    Comment by TechNald — November 21, 2008 @ 6:01 pm

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