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		xanderstrike on Feb 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing the first SHA-1 collision Give it a few years and your average Russian hacker with a handful of stolen credit cards will be able to buy enough VPS muscle to crack it.

Klathmon on Feb 23, 2017 [–]

Or that same russian hacker probably already has the compute power in his malware botnet to crack it in the span of months.

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