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'First ever' SHA-1 hash collision calculated. All it took were five clever brains... and 6,610 years of processor time

Ken Hagan Gold badge

Do we need to do anything about old content?

If we have, say, a legal contract that was timestamped and signed with SHA-1, will it be possible in the future to produce a different contract with the same (past) timestamp? If so, is it possible to defend against these attacks now by counter-signing them today with SHA-256? (I'm thinking that the counter-signature would prove that someone in 2017, whilst the SHA-1 signature was still worth something, vouched for the original contents and *that* counter-signature won't be similarly vulnerable for ... well, a few more years yet?)

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