Subject: Re: Supporting hashes other than SHA-1

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:04:11 -0700 (PDT)

Chris Frey <[email-masked]> writes:

> Considering the recent news regarding SHA-1's newly found weaknesses,
> is there any general interest in making git flexible enough to support
> other hashes in the future?

First, there isn't as far as I know any 'known preimage' attack
against SHA-1, and only that would truly matter for Git.

Second, this issue was discussed in depth in the past; check git
mailing list archives, please...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git