Archive for January, 2009
Git and the security of SHA-1
I’ve heard quite a few times about how Git would be broken if someone found an easy way to create SHA-1 collisions.
A few years ago, after some attacks against SHA-1 were published, Linus explained that the security model of Git doesn’t depend on the hashes being cryptographically secure (although he said that it was a [...]
Posted: January 27th, 2009 under English, Planet GPUL, Planet Gnome, Planet Igalia, Software.
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