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From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw•cz>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: SHA1 hash safety
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:18:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050416231832.GA11444@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050416161153.534b47d5.pj@sgi.com>

Hi!

> We've already computed the chances of a random pure hash collision
> with SHA1 - it's something like an average of 1 collision every
> 10 billion years if we have 10,000 coders generating 1 new file
> version every minute, non-stop, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

GIT is safe even for the millions of monkeys writing Shakespeare :-)

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw•cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
Homo homini lupus, frater fratri lupior, bohemus bohemo lupissimus.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-16 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-16 12:24 SHA1 hash safety David Lang
2005-04-16 12:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-16 12:48   ` David Lang
2005-04-16 13:29     ` Brian O'Mahoney
2005-04-16 14:58       ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-16 15:11         ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 15:36           ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-16 22:56             ` David Lang
2005-04-16 23:11               ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-16 23:18                 ` Martin Mares [this message]
2005-04-17  4:38                 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-18  0:09                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-16 15:49         ` ross
2005-04-17  6:35           ` Horst von Brand
2005-04-18  2:07             ` Brian O'Mahoney
2005-04-18 16:50             ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-16 19:16         ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-16 21:35         ` Brian O'Mahoney
2005-04-18  7:43           ` Andy Isaacson
2005-04-18 17:04             ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-19 22:30             ` David Meybohm
2005-04-19 22:48               ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-20 18:56                 ` David Meybohm
2005-04-16 22:46         ` David Lang
2005-04-16 23:14           ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-16 22:33       ` David Lang
2005-04-17  3:23       ` Tkil
2005-04-17  4:09         ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-17  4:43           ` Tkil
2005-04-17  5:09             ` Paul Jackson

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