SHA1 broken?

Dave Howe DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk
Sat Feb 19 07:53:53 PST 2005


Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> I believe you substantially misunderstood my statements, 2^69 work is 
> doable _now_. 2^55 work was performed in 72 hours in 1998, scaling 
> forward the 7 years to the present (and hence through known data) leads 
> to a situation where the 2^69 work is achievable today in a reasonable 
> timeframe (3 days), assuming reasonable quantities of available money 
> ($500,000US). There is no guessing about what the future holds for this, 
> the 2^69 work is NOW.
I wasn't aware that FPGA technology had improved that much if any - feel 
free to correct my misapprehension in that area though :)





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