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		bb88 on Feb 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing the first SHA-1 collision OTOH, 12 years of reliability from a checksum in the age of Moore's law and quantum computers is pretty good, frankly. I don't think they ever expected sha-1 to survive forever.

kzrdude on Feb 23, 2017 [–]

Sure.

In fact I intended to refer to the 10 year figure as massive miscalculation here.

Even the simplest messages have ambiguity.

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