Quantum computing has long been seen as both a promise and a threat: a future where computers can solve currently insurmountable problems, but also a world where the cryptographic foundations of secure communication may crumble. As research accelerates toward practical quantum computers—heralded...
Today, a group of eight researchers from across the security industry released a research report on SHA-1 that demonstrates for the first time, a “hash collision” for the full SHA-1 hash algorithm (called “SHAttered”). This is a significant step toward understanding this type of security issue...