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Researchers urge: industry standard SHA-1 should be retracted sooner (cwi.nl)
2 points by lisper on Oct 8, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The key points for me are: “SHA-1 was already broken theoretically, but now a very practical cost efficient implementation is in sight” and ”We now think that the state-of-the-art attack on full SHA-1 as described in 2013 may cost around 100,000 dollar renting graphics cards in the cloud.”




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