Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1
by AgentME on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:41PM
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Linus ranted[0] about how it's idiotic to worry about SHA-1 collisions in 2005 months after significant weaknesses[1] were found in it (which have recently been demonstrated by Google). I'm certainly not about to waste effort making a patch that he's going to reject as idiotic.
[0] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0885.html
[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.h...