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A comment on Ask HN: Will we ever be able to recover BitTorrent files from the piece hashes?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Will we ever be able to recover BitTorrent files ... by thfuran on Thursday March 24, 2022 @07:18AM (#30788361)
How would that appreciably help? There are so many more 4kb strings than sha1 hash values that finding collisions barely matters.
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Re:Ask HN: Will we ever be able to recover BitTorrent files ... by simplicialset on Thursday March 24, 2022 @01:45PM (#30793151)
Data generated by people isn't random, it has statistical regularities that can be used to narrow down the search space and since quantum computers are better at certain kinds of search problems it will be easier to find fragments of files based on just the hashes of the content.
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