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A series of latest papers have pretended collision attacks on publicly used hash functions, including the widely published SHA-1 algorithm. To estimate this threat, the natural response has been to strengthening the system to overcoming the weakness that make the system apt to collision. The SHA-1 hash function used in many fields of security system such as digital signature, tamper detection, password...