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All public results against SHA-1 are collision attacks. Password hashing doesn't rely on collision-resistance, only one-wayness. Not even MD5 has any publishe
by dfranke 17y ago
All public results against SHA-1 are collision attacks. Password hashing doesn't rely on collision-resistance, only one-wayness. Not even MD5 has any published preimage attacks against it. The known weaknesses in these functions have nothing to do with why they're poor choices for password storage.