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Originally Posted by SheepShagger
It is broken in the academic sense that "only" 2^69 operations are required to find a collision on a SHA-1 hashed message as opposed to the 2^80 the designers originally thought.
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I am quite the idiot when it comes to encryption, would it be possible for you to explain what exactly a collision is?
Thanks
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02-17-2005, 03:07
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