SHA1 algorithm securing e-commerce and software could break by year’s end

Minimalist · Oct 8, 2015

SHA1 has long been considered theoretically broken, and all major browsers had already planned to stop accepting SHA1-based signatures starting in January 2017. Now, researchers with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in the Netherlands, Inria in France, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have released a paper that argues real-world attacks that compromise the algorithm will be possible well before the cut-off date. The results of real-world forgeries could be catastrophic since the researchers estimate SHA1 now underpins more than 28 percent of existing digital certificates.
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http://arstechnica.com/security/201...m-securing-internet-could-break-by-years-end/

quietman · Oct 8, 2015

I stopped trusting MD5 many years ago .... and SHA1 was always going to be the next to go ...

.... "low-hanging fruit " , etc.

The future for all checksums is not looking good.

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