John Fiore on 16 Feb 2005 20:30:54 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html


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:

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> How will this affect the encryption program that
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