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		jakeogh on Feb 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing the first SHA-1 collision Thanks, so it can gen 2 same size colliding chunks, but it can not take an arb chunk and generate a collision for it. Right?

koolba on Feb 23, 2017 [–]

Yes that's my understanding of it. In the PDF example on the site, the file format allows enough tweaking to the raw data without impacting the content to make it feasible.

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