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Why it’s harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than it is to find a SHA-1 collision

It’s well known that SHA-1 is no longer considered a secure cryptographic hash function. Researchers now believe that finding a hash collision (two values that result in the same value when SHA-1 is applied) is inevitable and likely to happen.

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