SHA1 broken?

Darren Chamberlain dlc at sevenroot.org
Wed Feb 16 15:13:44 CET 2005


* Eric Anopolsky <erpo41 at hotpop.com> [2005/02/16 00:48]:
> http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/02/16/0146218.shtml?tid=93&tid=172&tid=218
> 
> Does anyone know anything about this?

Bruce Schneier thinks it's probably be true
(<http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html>):

  SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified
  version. The real thing.

  ...

  The paper isn't generally available yet. At this point I can't tell
  if the attack is real, but the paper looks good and this is a
  reputable research team.

So this would be when we start putting:

  digest-algo RIPEMD160

in our gpg.conf, right?

(darren)

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