Article 2DQ59 'First ever' SHA-1 hash collision calculated. All it took were five clever brains... and 6,610 years of processor time

'First ever' SHA-1 hash collision calculated. All it took were five clever brains... and 6,610 years of processor time

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Story ImageTired old algo underpinning online security must die now

Google researchers and academics have today demonstrated it is possible - albeit with a lot of computing power - to produce two different documents that have the same SHA-1 hash signature."

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