On: We have broken SHA-1 in practice

[Charged_Buffalo]

Well, looks like this guy was wrong: https://lwn.net/Articles/307281/

Copy-pasting for posterity:

  I've been informed by the git Gods that the chances of a
  SHA1 collision is the same as the Earth being sucked up into 
  the black hole created by the CERN accelerator. If this is 
  indeed true, then there's no need for that extra memcmp.

[not-tsuraru → Charged_Buffalo]

Well he seems to be talking about a random collision, not an attack. So not really the same subject.

See the end of his post: "He did show some concern that there might be a way to crack the algorithm"