Re: Academics Improve SHA-1 Collision Attack, Make It Actually Dangerous
John <[email protected]>
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Maybe I could try a little one............ Cheers John.. On 14/05/19 12:27 PM, Peter Reutemann wrote: > '"Attacks on the SHA-1 hashing algorithm just got a lot more dangerous > last week with the discovery of the first-ever 'chosen-prefix > collision attack,' a more practical version of the SHA-1 collision > attack first carried out by Google two years ago," reports ZDNet. > Google's original research allowed attackers to force duplicates for > specific files, but this process was often at random. A new SHA-1 > collision attack variation (a chosen-prefix attack) detailed last week > allows attackers to choose what SHA-1-signed files or data streams > they want to forge on demand, making SHA-1 an attack that is now > practical in the real world, albeit at a price tag of $100,000 per > collision.' > > -- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/05/13/2255229 > > Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug