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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Geoffrey Irving <irving@naml.us>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>,
	Henrik Austad <henrikau@orakel.ntnu.no>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About git and the use of SHA-1
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:55:32 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804291352120.23581@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f9d599f0804291048n2c706f3amdf159ffe86bdbc8@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Geoffrey Irving wrote:

> Sorry for the confusion: it would handwaving if I was saying git was insecure,
> but I'm not.  I'm saying that if or when SHA1 becomes vulnerable to collision
> attacks, git will be insecure.

Right.  And if or when that happens then we'll make Git secure again 
with a different hash.  In the mean time there is low return for the 
effort involved.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29 17:56 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 [this message]
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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