From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:18:32 GMT
Subject: Re: SHA1 hash safety
Message-ID: <20050416231832.GA11444@ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050416161153.534b47d5.pj@sgi.com>

Hi!

> We've already computed the chances of a random pure hash collision
> with SHA1 - it's something like an average of 1 collision every
> 10 billion years if we have 10,000 coders generating 1 new file
> version every minute, non-stop, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

GIT is safe even for the millions of monkeys writing Shakespeare :-)

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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