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| author | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2016-05-29 14:30:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2016-05-29 13:30:50 -0500 |
| commit | 02558188e0b1171a0e562b6719433951acf65d21 (patch) | |
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| parent | aefb6484822f4f034290a6a4abe20618d1b2c8f7 (diff) | |
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Fixed #2859 -- document that SHA-1 is the worst (#2925)
* Fixed #2859 -- document that SHA-1 is the worst
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst index 49288326..ff31b779 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst @@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ SHA-1 .. class:: SHA1() SHA-1 is a cryptographic hash function standardized by NIST. It produces an - 160-bit message digest. + 160-bit message digest. Cryptanalysis of SHA-1 has demonstrated that it is + vulnerable to practical collision attacks, though no actual collisions are + publicly known. SHA-2 family ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |