From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:49:06 GMT Subject: Re: Problem merging Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v4q6483ms.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sorry, but I am not a good enough cryptoanalyst to reverse SHA1 > hashes, I think nobody is. Since there are infinitely many files having the same SHA1 (pigeon-hole principle), there probably are infinitely many of them which compile just fine (and therefore could be the original). Now, I tried to find all of them, but I, too, failed ;-) Ciao, Dscho