Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256
by mathnmusic on Saturday June 20, 2020 @09:56AM
(#23583951)
One of the mistakes Git made was that the hashes don't describe what algorithm was used to generate them. That makes backward compatibility and incremental upgrades harder. MultiHash is a solution for such issues: https://github.com/multiformats/multihash
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256
by heavenlyblue on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:16PM
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You don’t need a specialised solution for this, just prefix the v1 of your hashing algorithm with some constant and then you can easily extend it.