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Re:BitTorrent v2 by sp332 on Monday September 07, 2020 @05:12PM (#24402936)
The weakness is a collision, not a pre-image attack. That means that a pair of payloads can be crafted together, one innocent and one malicious, that have the same hash. But it is not feasible to take a given file and make a new malicious payload with a matching hash.

So if you get your hash from whoever made the original binary, you can know that any binary with a matching hash is fine. But it could be a problem if someone creates a new pair of binaries and uploads the hash to TPB. You might see lots of good reviews from people who got the innocent version, but then the peers you connect to send you a malicious version with a matching hash.

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