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Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by fluoridation on Thursday August 15, 2024 @11:57AM (#41257480)
BitTorrent uses SHA-1, not MD5. It's not ideal, but hardly vulnerable.
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Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by kbolino on Thursday August 15, 2024 @12:26PM (#41257772)
SHA-1 has been broken since 2017. It is considerably more expensive to produce a SHA-1 collision than an MD5 collision, but certainly not impossible. However, BitTorrent v2 also came out in 2017 and uses SHA-256, for which no known collisions exist even today.
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