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
next prev 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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