@MASTERSTHESIS\{IMM2017-07046,
    author       = "A. A. Brandbyge and L. E. Nielsen",
    title        = "Quantifying the strength of hash functions",
    year         = "2017",
    school       = "Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science",
    address      = "Richard Petersens Plads, Building 324, {DK-}2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, compute@compute.dtu.dk",
    type         = "",
    note         = "{DTU} supervisor: Christian D. Jensen, cdje@dtu.dk, {DTU} Compute",
    url          = "http://www.compute.dtu.dk/english",
    abstract     = "In an estimate made by Bruce Schneier, it is predicted that the {SHA-}1 Hash algorithm will be cryptographically broken within the year 2018. This has will have a huge impact on the security infrastructure used today as {SHA-}1 is used extensively in many areas.
The report will outline the major areas where {SHA-}1 is used and offer a risk analysis based on theoretical models, previous examples and a practical implementation on a high performance computing cluster, and while no concrete, working attacks were produced, the hardware capabilities of the current generation were demonstrated, and used to reinforce the point, that 2nd pre-image attacks on {SHA-}1 are still not possible."
}