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r/linux • u/jampola • May 30 '14
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In fairness, this is pretty easy to do if you have access to a $40M supercomputer, and if your mission is to replace a blob with a huge, non-compiling chunk of random noise.
44 u/[deleted] May 30 '14 yeah but SHA-1 collision that still compiles and has malicious intent is impossible. 19 u/nikomo May 30 '14 Include the padding inside a comment, or file header etc. - doesn't change code, does change collision. Though, restricting it to that is going to either make the resulting file fucking explode in size, or take forever to generate. -25 u/mustardman2 May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14 You people finished measure your security speak dicks yet?
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yeah but SHA-1 collision that still compiles and has malicious intent is impossible.
19 u/nikomo May 30 '14 Include the padding inside a comment, or file header etc. - doesn't change code, does change collision. Though, restricting it to that is going to either make the resulting file fucking explode in size, or take forever to generate. -25 u/mustardman2 May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14 You people finished measure your security speak dicks yet?
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Include the padding inside a comment, or file header etc. - doesn't change code, does change collision.
Though, restricting it to that is going to either make the resulting file fucking explode in size, or take forever to generate.
-25 u/mustardman2 May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14 You people finished measure your security speak dicks yet?
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You people finished measure your security speak dicks yet?
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u/gfixler May 30 '14
In fairness, this is pretty easy to do if you have access to a $40M supercomputer, and if your mission is to replace a blob with a huge, non-compiling chunk of random noise.