By Steve Evans The death knell for security standard SHA-1 has been sounding for a number of years now, and Google’s cracking of it in February turned the volume up…
Tag: SHA-1
Stop using SHA1: It’s now completely unsafe
Researchers have achieved the first practical SHA-1 collision, generating two PDF files with the same signature. By Lucian Constantin Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the…
Facebook security warning over expiring algorithm
Web browsing will get much riskier for millions of people when a key security algorithm stops being used, warns Facebook. The algorithm, known as SHA-1, will stop being supported by…