SHA-1 crypto algorithm is dead by collision attack

The SHA-1 cryptographic hash function is dead. A 24-year-old security mechanism still in wide use around the internet today, the NSA-developed cryptographic algorithm was finally proven to be broken this week by a team of Dutch cryptographers and Google researchers who published their work at shattered.io. The researchers showed how to “collide” two different files but come out with […]

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