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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

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SHA1 in Git

Nitpick: Linus himself has said the security model of Git doesn’t depend on the hashes being cryptographically secure. That's what signed commits are for.

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