Re: Starting to think about sha-256?

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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> 
> Well, conflicting files will most probably have the same size,
> like with MD5 cases :-)

That's only true for the much easier injection case where you generate 
_both_ files together.

>From an external git hash-attack standpoint, that's not a very useful 
case. It's much more useful if you can make a new file that has a hash 
that matches a given old file, and in that case, the filelengths are 
likely not the same.

			Linus
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