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pabs3today at 2:09 AM1 replyview on HN

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


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vhcrtoday at 10:00 AM

BitTorrent v2 uses SHA-256, but in any case SHA-1 is still second-preimage resistant. And the BitTorrent piece hashes are included in the .torrent file, so you would need to find a double collision.