[lightedman]

I don't need to produce a collision, I just circumvent or exploit other parts of the system.

Then again, I did defeat Hermes 2 to recover my hard drive. All it took was a lot of hardware and AI and time and luck and brute force to crack the key.

[tptacek]

Then you're breaking other man-made things, not SHA2, but I didn't ask about other man-made things.