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tzs on Dec 13, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now o...

How so? People have found collision attacks on SHA1 that are significantly better than brute force, but I thought it was still safe against finding a plaintext that hashes to a given hash value.

brandon on Dec 13, 2010 [–]

Well, this isn't the whole picture, but SHA is faster than DES. Certainly that'd be a factor from a brute-force perspective.

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