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fletom on Feb 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing the first SHA-1 collision

Why would you ever want to add a second broken hash like MD5 instead of just using a single secure function like SHA2, SHA3, or BLAKE2?

bch on Feb 24, 2017 [–]

Only for the case like I mentioned (SourceForge example above) of verifying payloads that only ship with those two broken hashes. Not advocating for publishing new work like this.

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