[Cryptography] Sony finding SHA1 collisions?

[Albert Lunde]

On 12/12/2014 7:34 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> Does anyone know if that is what Sony is actually doing?  I cannot seem
> to find more details after ~5 minutes of Googling.

It sounds like they are seeding torrents with claimed hashes that that 
don't match the files they are seeding, so nothing cryptographically 
complex, just adding garbage to the environment.

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