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From: Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>
Subject: What about SHA-1 collisions?
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 21:26:43 +0100
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Hello,

we all know, the probability for SHA-1 collisions is very, very low, almost
non-existant. But we also know that they are not impossible.

Just for curiosity: what would happen if such a collision would occur within
one repository?