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Re:The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 by xapata on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:46PM (#21984617)
> Or 10 years from now it might be the next Linear A tablets

At some point in the future, after the universe has expanded to the extent that other galaxies are moving away from ours faster than the speed of light, someone might read our astronomy papers and wonder whether they can believe something that cannot be verified.

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Re:The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 by tambourine_man on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:44PM (#21987029)
I always think of this as well. But it may not be so:

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discov...

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