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Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'near-future release'

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Re: torrents?

At least technically it was address with the V2 BitTorrent protocol in 2017. It switches to SHA-256 and uses the Merkle Root Tree for individual files instead of a SHA-1 hash for each file among other improvements.

http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0052.html

How many third party clients, torrents, and magnet links have been updated I have no clue, but there is a fix barring weaknesses in SHA-256.

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