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Nope. Google's break of SHA-1 was reusable in the sense that you can add an arbitrary (identical) suffix to both PDFs and keep the collision. But Git does not use raw SHA-1 hashes, it adds a prefix before computing object hashes. Therefore, Google's break of SHA-1 cannot be reused to break Git.


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