Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Secure hash algorithms broken?

Princeton prof (& UW grad) Ed Felten (of RIAA v. Felten fame) has a series of posts (one, two, three) on rumors that the Crypto conference tonight will include presentatons whose results bode ill for all cryptosystems that use the SHA-1 hash algorithm and its relatives. Exciting times.

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