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It appears they are using a 2^63 hash operation attack that has been well known for nearly a decade. (Brute force of SHA-1 is 2^69.)

I wonder why they did not use the 2^52 operation attack that Schneier noted in 2009?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/ever_better_c...



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