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SHA1 collision was never much of a reason to change it in the first place; there is no practical attack that arises from it.
by Stevvo 5y ago
SHA1 collision was never much of a reason to change it in the first place; there is no practical attack that arises from it.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago1) Take a popular game torrent 2) add crypto mining code 3) pad it so the SHA1 stays the same 4) seed it, the magnet links will pick up your version 5) profit!
- daniel-cussen 5y agoBetween 1 and 2, remove the crypto mining code that came with it.
- ttybird2 5y agoExcept that this is not how collision attacks work.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoThat's a preimage attack. For example, the entire bitcoin network today needs something on the order of a trillion years for a preimage attack on MD5, multiply by another trillion for a SHA1 preimage attack.