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SHA-1 Cracked -- From the Epoch Times:
Associate professor Wang Xiaoyun of Beijing's Tsinghua University and Shandong University of Technology has cracked SHA-1, a widely used data security algorithm."
NIST Already Initiated Effort to Develop Additional Hash Algorithms Before SHA-1 Cracked --
As a result of recent attacks on the SHA-1 hash function specified in FIPS 180-2 , Secure Hash Standard, NIST (National Institue of Standards and Technology) is initiating an effort to develop one or more additional hash algorithms through a public competition, similar to the development process for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Concordia Student Subverts MS Vista DRM -- Concordia student Alex Ionescu Subverts Microsoft's Windows Vista DRM (Digital Rights Management). DRM has been (and is) a big bone of contention for advocates of freedom-of-use of computers and the content on computers. This news comes the day before Windows Vista official world-wide launch.
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