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Comment by anilgulecha

Big things affected:

* DHT/torrent hashes - A group of malicious peers could serve malware for a given hash.

* Git - A commit may be replaced by another without affecting the following commits.

* PGP/GPG -- Any old keys still in use. (New keys do not use SHA1.)

* Distribution software checksum. SHA1 is the most common digest provided (even MD5 for many).

Edit: Yes, I understand this is a collision attack. But yes, it's still a attack vector as 2 same blocks can be generated now, with one published, widely deployed (torrent/git), and then replaced at a later date.

parent anilgulecha 9 years ago

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