Security News > 2017 > February > New attack sounds death knell for widely used SHA-1 crypto hash function (Help Net Security)
2017-02-24 13:07
SHA-1 is definitely, provenly dead, as a group of researchers from CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have demonstrated the first practical technique for generating a collision. What is SHA-1? SHA-1 is a cryptographic hash function that has been used for years now to assure data integrity. It has been used in distributed software revision control systems (to identify revisions and to detect data corruption or tampering), to sign security certificates, and for many other … More →
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