Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme (OR) SHA-1 added to list of "accomplishments"

The reason for this change is that 41-years old associate professor Wang Xiaoyun of Beijing's Tsinghua University and Shandong University of Technology has already cracked SHA-1... Professor Wang Xiaoyun, a graduate of Shandong University of Technology's mathematics department, and her research team obtained results by using ordinary personal computers... Wang's method of cracking the encryptions differs from all others. Although encryption analysis usually cannot be done without the use of computers, according to Wang, the computer only assisted in cracking the algorithm. Most of the time, she calculated manually, and manually designed the methods.

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