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Re:Git's initial commit by sytelus on Monday November 24, 2014 @04:06AM (#8651560)
Very low indeed. Chance of SHA1 collision is of the order of 2^52. One person explained it this way: Chance of everyone currently on Earth winning a jackpot in their lifetime is actually higher than a single random SHA1 collision. It should be actually mind boggling how many of the software systems and algorithms rely on hashes and them being not collided.
Re:Git's initial commit by yuhong on Saturday November 29, 2014 @07:33PM (#8675551)
I think it is 2^61 now, the paper that once showed the 2^52 attack has removed the claims.