Re: SHA1 collisions proven possisble

❦ 23 février 2017 21:16 -0500, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> :

A couple things will make this slightly less useful for the attacker: 1) How many people are not going to keep a copy? Once both docs are be found to have the same hash, well, game over.

But if a transaction is automated, it may be too late. For example, if the document is a bank transfer slip. -- "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet"