From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:52:52 GMT
Subject: Re: About git and the use of SHA-1
Message-ID: <48173644.1020306@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <481732C0.5020208@op5.se>


> 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