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Peter Anvin)</td></tr><tr><td class="lp">Subject</td><td class="rp" itemprop="name">Re: more git updates..</td></tr><tr><td class="lp">Date</td><td class="rp" itemprop="datePublished">Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:58:20 +0000 (UTC)</td></tr></table></td><td></td></tr></table><pre itemprop="articleBody">Followup to: <20050410065307.GC13853@64m.dyndns.org><br />By author: Christopher Li <lkml@chrisli.org><br />In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel<br />> <br />> There is one problem though. How about the SHA1 hash collision?<br />> Even the chance is very remote, you don't want to lose some data do due<br />> to "software" error. I think it is OK that no handle that<br />> case right now. On the other hand, it will be nice to detect that<br />> and give out a big error message if it really happens.<br />> <br /><br />If you're actually worried about it, it'd be better to just use a<br />different hash, like one of the SHA-2's (probably a better choice<br />anyway), instead of SHA-1.<br /><br /> -hpa<br /><br />-<br />To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in<br />the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org<br />More majordomo info at <a href="http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html">http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html</a><br />Please read the FAQ at <a href="http://www.tux.org/lkml/">http://www.tux.org/lkml/</a><br /><br /></pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2005-04-11 16:03 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>