Thread: SEV: What am I REALY getting for my money?
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Old August 14th, 2006, 04:54 PM
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Default Re: SEV: What am I REALY getting for my money?
I don't think that will really work out too well in practice though... BT uses SHA1 hashing, not MD5. While an attack vector has been found for SHA1, it is not yet computationally feasible to create faked pieces of data that would let you disrupt a BT transfer. You can bet that as soon as viable methods for creating collisions in the SHA1 algorithm are found, the BT protocol will just switch to a newer algorithm that is not yet possible to break.
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