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rlanday
on Feb 23, 2017
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Announcing the first SHA-1 collision
I don't think there's ever been an example of two different pieces of content hashing to the same SHA-1 before. An infinite number of such examples obviously must exist but they're incredibly improbably to encounter by accident.
OJFord
on Feb 23, 2017
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Yep, sorry, it was far too early in the day for me to appreciate the magnitude of 2^{160}.
If I could downvote myself...
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