From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:55:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Supporting hashes other than SHA-1
Message-ID: <m3vdo6lbuy.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <m3zldjl5bq.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net> 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/

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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