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Zooko Wilcox privately showed some data at the Decentralized Web Summit suggesting that if you extend these results with newer data, the apparent pattern change
by btrask 10y ago
Zooko Wilcox privately showed some data at the Decentralized Web Summit suggesting that if you extend these results with newer data, the apparent pattern changes: up until around SHA-1, hash algorithms would eventually break, but since SHA-256, we "figured out how to build them right" and now they can be expected to last "forever."
I don't know if his conclusion is right, and unfortunately he hasn't published it, but it at least seems plausible to me. A cryptographic hash function shouldn't be a ticking time bomb if you have the right theoretical basis.