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February 18, 2005

China cracks SHA-1

Technology at 10:56:32 PM MT (link) | Sort of old news, but SHA1 has been cracked. As a tax-paying, law-abiding American citizen I'm not really comfortable with the current Chinese military build-up, along with them now breaking one of our premier hash algorithms...

That I said, I still use MD5 for almost everything.