Hi, On Tue, 12 May 2009, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: > > 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/ > > > > It's a bit harder than that, since both pre-images have to be the same > size. They don't. The pre-images prefixed by the type identifier and the size in ASCII need to have the same hash. There is a difference. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html