Tobias DiPasquale on 16 Feb 2005 20:35:53 -0000


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

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On Feb 16, 2005, at 3:30 PM, John Fiore wrote: 
It takes 2^(69) operations to find a collision.
That's still a huge number.

It's only 32 times bigger than what is required to crack the original, full DES by brute force. That's not that much with today's hardware.

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