A Super-Common Crypto Tool Turns Out to Be Super-Insecure by Lily Hay Newman from on 2017-02-23 13:00 (#2DNVQ) NIST has been warning about vulnerabilities in its SHA-1 cryptographic hash function for years, but some services still use it and the threats are growing. The post A Super-Common Crypto Tool Turns Out to Be Super-Insecure appeared first on WIRED.