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BitTorrent uses SHA-1, not MD5. It's not ideal, but hardly vulnerable.
by fluoridation 2y ago
BitTorrent uses SHA-1, not MD5. It's not ideal, but hardly vulnerable.
- kbolino 2y agoSHA-1 has been broken since 2017. It is considerably more expensive to produce a SHA-1 collision than an MD5 collision, but certainly not impossible. However, BitTorrent v2 also came out in 2017 and uses SHA-256, for which no known collisions exist even today.