Should anyone really care: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html [quote]
Today, 10 years after of SHA-1 was first introduced, we are announcing the first practical technique for generating a collision. This represents the culmination of two years of research that sprung from a collaboration between the CWI Institute in Amsterdam <https://www.cwi.nl/> and Google. We’ve summarized how we went about generating a collision below. As a proof of the attack, we are releasing two PDFs <https://shattered.it/> that have identical SHA-1 hashes but different content. [\quote] -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
