John Fiore on 16 Feb 2005 20:30:54 -0000 |
The attack is something that makes cryptographers feel all tingly inside, but for the forseeable future, it will have no practical effect. It takes 2^(69) operations to find a collision. That's still a huge number. --- "Stewart B. Lone" <592653589793238@snip.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html > > How will this affect the encryption program that > most of us seem to use? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCE1SOnc2ybvLsO8URAsA8AJ9nmH2ckYAulcUDQiGkY9OL/WNT7ACeJdp4 > osEQesax7P9nvdPk0vLMzp0= > =XX3k > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- > http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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