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    SubjectRe: more git updates..
    hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)  wrote on 11.04.05 in <d3dvps$347$1@terminus.zytor.com>:

    > 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.

    How could that help? *Every* hash has hash collisions. It's an unavoidable
    result of using less bits than the original data has.

    MfG Kai
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