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smt88today at 1:16 AM1 replyview on HN

Torrent files are hashed, so it's exactly the same risk profile as the comment I was referring to. But generally hashing algorithms are collision-proof enough that what you're describing is basically impossible (requiring many years of compute time).


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pabs3today at 2:09 AM

IIRC BitTorrent still uses SHA-1, which is becoming more problematic.