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vankap on Nov 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: German Brute Forces SHA1 in 49 Minutes for $2

Switching to one of the SHA-2 hashes should be good enough till SHA-3 is selected.

tptacek on Nov 19, 2010 [–]

Switching to SHA2 would do absolutely nothing to defend against GPU-optimized brute force dictionary searches.

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