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RE: SHA1 Is Now Officially Insecure
Thanks. This is interesting.
$110K is still a rather steep price threshold to clear.
I wonder how much an adequate RSA/DSA/SSL2 hack would cost. Hopefully more than most hackers can afford.
The price may be worth it to someone and it's small change to the NSA. They have the processing power to do it themselves and it will only get cheaper over time.
The distributed.net project was about proving that some algorithms could be broken with brute force. Sometimes shortcuts are found that make it easier.