[Cryptography] Collisions w/SHA-1 ~$100,000 TODAY
Peter Gutmann
pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Oct 27 23:08:14 EDT 2015
Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> writes:
>FYI -- Oh, SHA-1t !! Cyber Perl Harbor, here we come!
Don't worry, they're being kept safe by other issues:
http://www.theonion.com/article/china-unable-recruit-hackers-fast-enough-keep-vuln-51719
China Unable To Recruit Hackers Fast Enough To Keep Up With Vulnerabilities
In U.S. Security Systems
What with the endless numbers of other readily-exploited security holes that
are available, it'll be a long time if ever before someone goes for a highly-
visible, easily-identified SHA-1 collision attack.
Peter.
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