Re: About git and the use of SHA-1
- From
Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
- Date
- Apr 29, 2008, 14:52 UTC
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- <48173644.1020306@gnu.org>
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- <481732C0.5020208@op5.se>
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> So what you're saying is that if someone owns a repository and adds a > file to it, he can then replace his entire repository with an identical > one where the good file is replaced with a bad one, and this will affect > people who clone *after* the file gets replaced. > > Gee, that's one fiendishly large attack vector
I agree (with the irony).
Paolo