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Re:The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 by tptacek on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:35PM (#21982243)
A length-extension attack works by taking the output of a hash and using it as the starting point for a new hash; you can do this even for hashes of messages you haven't seen, minting new related hashes. Truncated SHA-2 hashes don't output the whole hash, and so you aren't given enough information to start a new related hash.

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