[Cryptography] Google announces practical SHA-1 collision attack

Nikita Borisov nikita at illinois.edu
Sun Feb 26 22:04:45 EST 2017


On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

> They announced an attack that requires a nation-state's worth of resources
> and
>

The cost estimates were around $500K at normal EC2 prices and $100K at spot
prices. I'd have imagined that nation states command rather more resources
than that!

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