New results against SHA-1
    Atom Smasher 
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    Fri May  1 05:58:47 CEST 2009
    
    
  
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, David Shaw wrote:
> http://eurocrypt2009rump.cr.yp.to/837a0a8086fa6ca714249409ddfae43d.pdf
>
> There is not much hard information yet, but the two big quotes are 
> "SHA-1 collisions now 2^52" and "Practical collisions are within 
> resources of a well funded organisation."
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so... when is the open-pgp spec moving beyond SHA1 hashes to identify 
public keys? what's next? will it have to be a bigger hash?
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