Crypto is SHAttered!
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7 min readAug 25, 2018
SHA-1 is not a favoured son at the present time, and has been on borrowed time when it has shown to have theoretical collisions from its hash signatures. But it was Google’s who finally produced a collision for SHA-1 in 2017. For this Google used some of the best computing power around to cause a practical collision [here]:
