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Not sure why this is being downvoted. It's a reasonable point.


It's not. If browser vendors thought that the potential for breaking a decent hash function was a real threat, they would also not implement HTTPS, signed updates, etc, all of which depend on the trust in hash based signatures.


I, for one, welcome EdDSA signing of Javascript resources.




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