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I don't think there's ever been an example of two different pieces of content hashing to the same SHA-1 before. An infinite number of such examples obviously must exist but they're incredibly improbably to encounter by accident.


Yep, sorry, it was far too early in the day for me to appreciate the magnitude of 2^{160}.

If I could downvote myself...




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