Re:The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
by remus on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:38AM
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Depreciating things takes a long time. It could be 10 years before 'that guy' in your office gets it in to his head that SHA-1 isn't appropriate where security is concerned. Thus you want to make it unambiguous that now is a good time to move to something else so that when it is thoroughly broken in 10 years time you're minimising the number of people who have yet to switch.
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Re:The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
by tialaramex on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:22PM
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Depreciating things takes however long your accountants and the tax laws in your country allow :)
Deprecating things does take a long time, and the only practical thing to do about that is to get ahead of the game as you say.