SHA-1 completely busted

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Malcolm
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SHA-1 completely busted

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Why should you care that a simple collision attack can crack your hash?
However, despite these efforts to phase out the use of SHA-1 in some areas, the algorithm is still fairly widely used to validate credit card transactions, electronic documents, email PGP/GPG signatures, open-source software repositories, backups and software updates.
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