Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: more git updates.. | Date | Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:58:20 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <20050410065307.GC13853@64m.dyndns.org> By author: Christopher Li <lkml@chrisli.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > There is one problem though. How about the SHA1 hash collision? > Even the chance is very remote, you don't want to lose some data do due > to "software" error. I think it is OK that no handle that > case right now. On the other hand, it will be nice to detect that > and give out a big error message if it really happens. >
If you're actually worried about it, it'd be better to just use a different hash, like one of the SHA-2's (probably a better choice anyway), instead of SHA-1.
-hpa
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