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dsp1234 on Dec 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than ...

to not explain that Nat McHugh's image collisions were chosen-prefix attacks.

In the paragraph right before those images, it says:

"This was cleverly demonstrated by Nat McHugh, who used a chosen-prefix hash collision"

ademarre on Dec 22, 2015 [–]

Thanks for pointing that out. It was updated after initial publication.

Originally it said:

> This was cleverly demonstrated by Nat McHugh, who used the broken hash function MD5 to create two images with the same hash...

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