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From: Tom Widmer <tom.widmer@googlemail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About git and the use of SHA-1
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:02:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fv7db2$5hi$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804281829.11866.henrikau@orakel.ntnu.no>

Henrik Austad wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> As far as I have gathered, the SHA-1-sum is used as a identifier for commits, 
> and that is the primary reason for using sha1.  However, several places 
> (including the google tech-talk featuring Linus himself) states that the id's 
> are cryptographically secure.
> 
> As discussed in [1], SHA-1 is not as secure as it once was (and this was in 
> 2005), and I'm wondering - are there any plans for migrating to another 
> hash-algorithm? I.e. SHA-2, whirlpool..
> 
> [1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis_o.html

Why not wait until the results of:

are available. That will surely be soon enough.

Tom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-28 16:29 About git and the use of SHA-1 Henrik Austad
2008-04-28 19:34 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-28 21:29   ` Henrik Austad
2008-04-28 22:15     ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-29  6:38     ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-29  7:09       ` Russ Dill
2008-04-29  7:21         ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-29 11:05           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-29 12:27             ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-29 13:05               ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 14:37                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-29 14:52                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-29 16:24                   ` Russ Dill
2008-04-29 12:46         ` Jurko Gospodnetić
2008-04-29 16:21           ` Russ Dill
2008-04-29 15:34   ` Geoffrey Irving
2008-04-29 16:27     ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-29 12:41 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-04-29 14:41   ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-04-29 15:42     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-04-29 15:59       ` Geoffrey Irving
2008-04-29 16:39         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-04-29 17:48           ` Geoffrey Irving
2008-04-29 17:55             ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-04-29 18:02               ` Geoffrey Irving
2008-04-29 18:41                 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-29 20:31                   ` Geoffrey Irving
2008-04-29 20:50                     ` Fredrik Skolmli
2008-04-29 21:39                       ` Geoffrey Irving
2008-04-29 21:52                         ` Fredrik Skolmli
2008-04-30  2:58                     ` Martin Langhoff
2008-04-30  5:18                       ` Geoffrey Irving
2008-04-30  5:47                         ` David Brown
2008-04-30  5:56                           ` Martin Langhoff
2008-04-29 18:17         ` Matthieu Moy
2008-04-29 18:23           ` Fredrik Skolmli
2008-04-29 15:02 ` Tom Widmer [this message]
2008-04-29 17:08 ` Tom Widmer

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