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After some recent breaks presented in the technical literature, it has become of paramount importance to gain a deeper understanding of the robustness and weaknesses of cryptographic hash functions. In particular, in the light of the recent attacks to the MD5 hash function, SHA-1 remains currently the only function that can be used in practice, since it is the only alternative to MD5 in many security...
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