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How broken does this claim RSA is? SHA-1 was known to be broken for a long time before actually pulling off a collision was performed for example.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1#Attacks

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An attack is anything that makes it take less than a brute force effort (of 2^80 operations). A 2^63 effort is really expensive in 2007. But by 2015 computation was maybe 2^5 times cheaper and there was a 2^5 cheaper attack.

I believe that this breakthrough could be quite a bit bigger because it's changing the costs from exponential to polynomial and so speedup is likely a much bigger change.

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