From: "Jurko Gospodnetić" <jurko.gospodnetic@docte.hr>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
Henrik Austad <henrikau@orakel.ntnu.no>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About git and the use of SHA-1
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:46:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481718AF.8090000@docte.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9d2a5e10804290009p17d291d5wf14e2bb58bedca63@mail.gmail.com>
> I think you are missing the point. One of the pluses behind originally
> using SHA-1 and the signed tags is that the system as a whole is
> cryptographically secure. You can verify from the public key of
> whoever made the tag that yes, this really is the source and history
> they tagged.
I am not really sure I follow this.... how can you 'verify from the
public key of whoever made the tag' that the SHA-1 hash is correct!?
SHA-1 does not have anything do with any externally provided keys or
have I managed to get something confused here?
Best regards,
Jurko Gospodnetić
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 12:47 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 [this message]
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
2008-04-29 17:08 ` Tom Widmer
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