Exactly the point I was trying to make. Is it an immediate issue? No, of course not, and if it seemed that I was making the opposite point, then I apologize. I tend to get a bit aggravated when I'm accused of just reading some blurb on another site and extrapolating out huge consequences.psoTFX wrote:Obviously we need to keep an eye on it though.
My concern is that once a crack appears in a given algorithm, be it encryption or hashing, it's usually followed by significant advances that proceed to significantly reduce the difficulty of breaking the system.