Weaknesses in SHA-1

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, David Shaw wrote:

> I think history shows that any uncommon algorithm is going to be used 
> simply because it's there...
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history also shows that a weakness in an encryption primitive is more 
likely to be discovered ~after~ it becomes popular and widely used.

unless it's discovered earlier  ;)


         ...atom

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