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[Security] Major Cryptographic Algorithms Broken by Quantum Bogodynamics

It is definitely not April Fools' Day, but the article Crypto researchers abuzz over flaws will probably make you think it is.  As if all of the nasty viruses and worms and buffer overruns of late aren't enough, now MD4, MD5, HAVAL-128, RIPEMD, SHA-1, and other basic cryptographic algorithms currently in heavy production usage are under severe mathematical attack. 

I think the only reasonable non-Occamian (Null-O) theory is that we must have recently experienced a serious rise in bogon flux density.  It's obvious (TM) that bogons and psytons have started poking their holes not only through electronic equipment but also even through basic theories and abstractions of all types.  Quantum bogodynamics has evolved into the abstract realm!  Start boning up on your quantum compudynamics or we are surely lost. Hmmmmmm?  Perhaps we're lost, anyway.

"Caveat everybody!  She's gonna' blow!" 

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