a chinese professor (Wang Xiaoyun) broke SHA-1. Wow! this is amazing news and bad news at the same time.

This article, talks about how she has cracked five encryption methods now in ten years. And she said this has not been a hectic decade either. She has worked at a leisurely pace to get this done with her team. Having cracked these are good for various people that want to get to the secrets but is very bad for all of us that want to keep secrets. What disturbs me is now that SHA-1 is cracked, MD5 is no longer secure. And I have used it for a long time now. bummer. Now I will have to move on to a newer/different encryption method to keep things secure.