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Re:German Brute Forces SHA1 in 49 Minutes for $2 by vankap on Friday November 19, 2010 @12:23PM (#1921971)
Switching to one of the SHA-2 hashes should be good enough till SHA-3 is selected.
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Re:German Brute Forces SHA1 in 49 Minutes for $2 by tptacek on Friday November 19, 2010 @12:24PM (#1921975)
Switching to SHA2 would do absolutely nothing to defend against GPU-optimized brute force dictionary searches.
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