Hackaday Links

hackaday links

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so far, it’s been an interesting week in security.

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5 thoughts on “Hackaday Links

  1. SHA-1 hasn’t been “broken”, it’s just become several orders of magnitude easier to find collisions. It’s still very *VERY* difficult to do. Not saying we shouldn’t find a new hash algorithm, but you’re kind of overstating how bad this is.

  2. tom, 2**69 is still a lot of operations, but it’s a hell of a lot smaller than 2**80, and it places an attack within the reach of a well funded individual or organization.

    with the push to employ hash functions like this in the automatic distribution, verification, and installation of software, i think it’s worth talking about.

    so, yeah, maybe ‘broken’ is an overstatement, but that really depends on who you are, what you are distributing, and how much its integrity is worth to you.

  3. With the de-drm for napster as you put it, wouldn’t it be rad, if some r33t hax0rz made a p2p app, that created it’s own decentralised network, whilst every client connects to napster and starts ripping mp3s, either by means of using a free trial, or using their ntg accounts. And obviously shares the content free of charge. hrm. *thinks* maybe it’s not doable, but if it’s implementable you could have a p2p network with all the content of napster and only that hrm.

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