Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1
by kaoD on Sunday February 26, 2017 @08:38AM
(#13737144)
It's funny because in that Twitter thread this[0] is linked:
Reactions to stages in the life cycle of cryptographic hash functions
Stage | Expert reaction | Programmer reaction | Non-expert ("slashdotter") reaction
---------------------+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------
... | ... | ... | ...
General acceptance | Top-level researchers begin serious work on | Even Microsoft is using the hash function now | Flame anyone who suggests the function
| finding a weakness (and international fame) | | may be broken in our lifetime
Just to be clear: I don't doubt JP Aumasson's reasons to believe so. I doubt yours because as far as I can tell it's basically argument from authority ("JP Aumasson said so!")
[0] http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html