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From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Subject: Exploiting SHA1's  "XOR weakness" allows for faster hash calculation
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:19:43 +0100
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Hi,

to say it in advance: I do not want to trigger any bogus security 
discussion here. Instead, I believe the findings from [1] allow for an 
up to 20% faster SHA1 calculation, if my brief reading of the 
presentation is correct. Any opinions on integration this optimization 
into Git?

[1] https://hashcat.net/p12/js-sha1exp_169.pdf

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Sebastian Schuberth