Security researchers announce “first practical” SHA-1 collision attack

 Security researchers at the CWI institute in Amsterdam working with a team from Google Research say they have found a faster way to compromise the SHA-1 hash algorithm — announcing what they describe as “the first practical technique for generating a SHA-1 collision” a in a blog post today. Read More

from https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/security-researchers-announce-first-practical-sha-1-collision-attack/?ncid=rss