Mike Hawkshaw wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/17/sha1_hashing_broken/
> 
> Long rumored and now official, the popular SHA-1 hashing algorithm has been
> attacked successfully by researchers in China and the US......

Not really... they only found a collision, which in most applications is
not a successful attack. And I take my chances with 2^69 any day; most of
the systems we create (and use) have a higher failure rate...

Gerhard
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