Article in the Epoch Times (a Chinese newspaper) writes about a brilliant Chinese professor who has cracked her fifth encryption scheme in ten years. There is also post on Slashdot about this.
[Thanks to colleague Maksa for bringing this to my attention].
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SHA is, like MD5 (rougly) based on MD4. MD5 is broken. It was inevitable for SHA to be broken too. Having that said, I hope that next hash function ain’t gonna be based on MD5. Just let Bruce Shneier make the new hash instead of Ron Rivest and we’re all gonna sleep tight for a while. Doubts? Anyone broke Blowfish or Twofish? No. Make your own conclusions.