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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: "Geoffrey Irving" <irving@naml.us>
Cc: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>, "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 20:17:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqwsmg7cfk.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f9d599f0804290859y6a579302m5db9f7f827b320a4@mail.gmail.com> (Geoffrey Irving's message of "Tue\, 29 Apr 2008 08\:59\:29 -0700")

"Geoffrey Irving" <irving@naml.us> writes:

> Here's the standard scenario for a hash collision attack, with
> parties, A, B, and C:
>
> 1. C, the malicious one, computes the standard two pdfs with matching
> sha1 hashes.
> 2. C sends the valid pdf to B through a git commit, and B signs it with a tag.
> 3. C grabs the signature, and then forwards the "signed" commit to A,
> but substitutes the invalid pdf with the same hash.

Just to add my 2 cents, examples of this are available on the web,
like:

http://th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/People/Lucks/HashCollisions/

Same size, same hash. But that's with md5, not sha1.

-- 
Matthieu

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29 18:20 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 [this message]
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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