🎲 Oh, the joys of #hashing your way to oblivion! It's somehow "groundbreaking" that the #math behind hash collisions is akin to picking a random box 🤯. Who knew computer science could be distilled into a carnival game? 🎪📚
https://kevingal.com/blog/collisions.html #hashcollisions #computerscience #carnivalgame #groundbreaking #HackerNews #ngated

Just downloading some updates and checking #SHA hashes, like you do. Insofar as people actually bother, I wonder how many people just look at the first few digits and the last few digits and call it a day. Which raises a question: has anyone ever explored the idea of hash "partial" collisions in a crypto context? I.e. if the first and last 8 hex digits are the same, but the middle could differ. Might be a useful thing for some attackers trying to deposit nasty things in public repositories. #Malware #HashCollisions #Cryptography #Software #InfoSec #SupplyChain