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by avar 2600 days ago
> SHAtter was waived by many because the threat model didn't convincingly apply to them. Example: git.

Git quickly switched to the sha1collisiondetection library[1] by default after the SHAttered attack was published. It's a SHA-1 library written by the authors of the paper which the attack.

Edit: Marc Stevens saying that existing library will mitigate this new attack: https://twitter.com/realhashbreaker/status/11284190295369236...

1. https://github.com/cr-marcstevens/sha1collisiondetection

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That still does not solve the issue with OpenPGP signatures though, does it?
It does, because a tag pointing to the malicious content wouldn't hash with sha1collisiondetection's modified SHA-1, just like you can't add the SHAttered PDFs to git.