Re: Supporting hashes other than SHA-1

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Chris Frey <cdfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Considering the recent news regarding SHA-1's newly found weaknesses,
> > is there any general interest in making git flexible enough to support
> > other hashes in the future?
> 
> First, there isn't as far as I know any 'known preimage' attack
> against SHA-1, and only that would truly matter for Git.
> 
> Second, this issue was discussed in depth in the past; check git
> mailing list archives, please...

See also this blog entry (and comments):
  http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/sha-1/

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Jakub Narebski
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