Re: SHA1 collisions found

Linus Torvalds wrote:

What you describe pretty much already requires a pre-image attack,
which the new attack is _not_.

It's not clear that the "good" object can be anything sane.

Generate a regular commit object; use the entire commit object + NUL as the
chosen prefix, and use the identical-prefix collision attack to generate
the colliding good/bad objects.

(The size in git's object header is a minor complication. Set the size
field to something sufficiently large, and then pad out the colliding
objects to that size once they're generated.)

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