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SHA-1 Officially Broken

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(Random, interesting tidbit)
The day has finally come. SHA-1 collision is feasible (well, with quite some resources, but still)!

https://shattered.io/

Now, not really much need to be alarmed, SHA-1 has been known to be 'not good enough' for a long time; those who are still using it are knowingly playing with fire. Everyone should be using at least SHA256 when security is required.

Which brings us to the real question...when will SHA256 fall? :geek: That will be a scary day indeed if it comes sooner than expected :ghost:
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” ~ Henry Ford
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#2
All encryption will fall eventually, if it can go backwards through any method at all, then it can and (given time+resources) will be broken.

This is both cool, and fun news though. Lets me throw it in the face of a customer who still uses Sha1 :V
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I suspect we will be discussing this on Monday where I work.

Just in case.

And certainly SHA256 will also fall at some point; Moore's Law will inevitably catch up to it. (As it will Bitcoin miners.) The question is whether something better will have been created in a standardized and reasonably simple to adopt format before then.

And then we'll have ANOTHER round of "OMG time to replace all our certs and test all our interfaces."

Assuming SMOD doesn't put us all out of our misery because we were too stupid to establish a self-sustaining off-world colony, is there any end conceivable to this game of secure-and-crack leapfrog?
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Basmannen wrote:
Flatfingers wrote:Moore's Law
As I understand it the end of this is coming very soon, or is already here.
I remember that having been said before. ;)

What might be more accurate to say is that Moore's Law is changing from being a mostly continuous line to something that's more a series of flat lines punctuated by catastrophic bursts of improvement. You're certainly right that it's harder to predict when those will happen... but history suggests that they can be counted on to happen as long as innovation is rewarded.
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Cornflakes_91 wrote:Moores law is coming to an end with silicon based conventional electronics, but there are many avenues that all could bring a renewal of it (or a new, equivalent law) based on the new techniques.
Moore's Law was coming to an end a decade and a half ago, it's well and truly dead now.
However that doesn't concern me too much. What concerns me is the lack of a fourth gen programming language, something high level enough to remove idiots from programming in shitty languages like Java.

It's those idiots who were making Moore's Law a requirement.
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<Cuisinart8> apparently without the demon driving him around Silver has the intelligence of a botched lobotomy patient ~ Mar 04 2020
console.log(`What's all ${this} ${Date.now()}`);
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Cornflakes_91 wrote:
Silverware wrote: Moore's Law was coming to an end a decade and a half ago, it's well and truly dead now.
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yep, totally died fifteen years ago :D
Calc/Sec/Dollar sure, but Calc/Sec is a different graph altogether.
And its pure power I was talking about.
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<Cuisinart8> apparently without the demon driving him around Silver has the intelligence of a botched lobotomy patient ~ Mar 04 2020
console.log(`What's all ${this} ${Date.now()}`);
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Silverware wrote:
Cornflakes_91 wrote:
Silverware wrote: Moore's Law was coming to an end a decade and a half ago, it's well and truly dead now.
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yep, totally died fifteen years ago :D
Calc/Sec/Dollar sure, but Calc/Sec is a different graph altogether.
And its pure power I was talking about.
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stupid forum software doesnt like svg graphics. fix'd it in the post.
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A one time pad (when created and handled properly, and the key is not stolen) cannot be decrypted by any brute force.

But beeing a symmetric-key encryption, its not very practical. (you need to share the key safely by physical means at one point)
But if you just want to send once an important message, you can be sure, than the message cannot be decrypted when intercepted.

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