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To: ConservativeMind

Google cracked SHA1 wide open and announced it on Feb 23 of this year. The attack would take a solo attacker with just one consumer machine 110 years, but a typical hacker botnet of just ~40k zombie machines can crack it in about a day.


38 posted on 03/03/2017 10:46:52 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr; knarf
Knarf, it would take a minimum of $110,000 of Amazon Cloud distributed processing to hack you as of this week.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/at-deaths-door-for-years-widely-used-sha1-function-is-now-dead/

42 posted on 03/03/2017 10:58:35 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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