From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:04:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Supporting hashes other than SHA-1
Message-ID: <m3zldjl5bq.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20090511195242.GA14756@foursquare.net>

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...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git