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Re: SHA1 collisions proven possisble


From: valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:22:27 -0500

On Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:28:23 -0600, "james.d--- via NANOG" said:

Those statistics are nowhere near real world for ROI. You'd have to invest
at least 7 figures (USD) in resources. So the return must be millions of
dollars before anyone can detect the attack. Except, it's already
detectable.

*Somebody* has to invest 7 figures in resources.  Doesn't have to be you.

Remember that if you have access to a 1M node botnet, you could have 56,940,000
hours of CPU time racked racked up in... under 60 hours.

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