Day: February 23, 2017

Google kills SHA-1 with successful collision attack

It’s official: The SHA-1 cryptographic algorithm has been “SHAttered.” Google successfully broke SHA-1. Now what? After years of warning that advances in modern computing meant a successful collision attack against SHA-1 was imminent, a team of researchers from Google and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands have successfully developed the first successful SHA-1 collision.

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