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It’s not currently - collisions are very expensive and only in limited contexts. If you wanted to distribute malware via torrents your efforts are better spent

It’s not currently - collisions are very expensive and only in limited contexts. If you wanted to distribute malware via torrents your efforts are better spent elsewhere.

ogogmad 6y ago
Attacks only get better with time. Also, this seems quite bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_attack#Chosen-prefix_collision_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_attack#Chosen-prefix...
- loeg 6y ago
  That attack isn't relevant to bittorrent swarms. What you want is a preimage attack on SHA1.
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