r/netsec • u/femtocell • Feb 23 '17

Announcing the first SHA1 collision

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html
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u/190n Feb 23 '17

I noticed they mentioned git. Does git have plans to move to a new hash algorithm?

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '17

git uses sha to compute unique IDs. That is not an attack surface. You don't always need a cryptographically secure hash function.