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Comment by bjornsing

> We note that classical collisions and chosen-prefix collisions do not threaten all usages of SHA-1. In particular, HMAC-SHA-1 seems relatively safe, and preimage resistance (aka ability to invert the hash function) of SHA-1 remains unbroken as of today.

Nice to see this bit of intellectual honesty. Would be even nicer if they had explained what that means in terms of PGP keys.

parent bjornsing 6 years ago

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