Monday, August 22, 2005

Cracking SHA-1 / MD5

New cracking results against SHA-1 by Wang Xiao Yun were presented during Crypto 2005. The time complexity of the attack was improved from 2^69 to 2^63.

Links:
- Schneier

Anyway more of relevance right now may be MD5. Here is the paper on collisions of MD5 by Wang Xiao Yun etal.

And the creation of colliding X.509 certificates can be found here.

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