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A comment on Linus on Git and SHA-1. Parent comment

Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1 by hueving on Saturday February 25, 2017 @04:51PM (#13734064)
>Preimage resistance does matter

Is there a preimage weakness though? I thought this attack only reduced collision resistance.

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Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1 by OJFord on Saturday February 25, 2017 @07:06PM (#13734735)
GP said that in reference to quantum attacks.
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