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Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System



Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, arian a écrit :
> where do you get that these are "insufficient for absolute certainty"?
> (beside maybe md4)
> there are no known collisions in sha1 and better, and even md4's preimage
> attack has complexity 2^102. [1,2]

There are collisions for SHA1 as soon as the files are larger than 20 bytes.
The same applies to SHA-2 with the corresponding size.

The collisions are not known, and very unlikely, but "absolute" means
absolute, not "very likely".

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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