From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Separate commit identification from Merkle hashing
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 18:57:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190521015703.GB32230@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190521013250.3506B470485F@snark.thyrsus.com>
Hi!
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> One reason I am sure of this is the SHA-1 to whatever transition.
> We can't count on the successor hash to survive attack forever.
> Accordingly, git's design needs to be stable against the possibility
> of having to accommodate multiple future hash algorithms in the
> future.
Have you read through Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition? It
takes the case where the new hash function is found to be weak into account.
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-21 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-21 1:32 RFC: Separate commit identification from Merkle hashing Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-21 1:57 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2019-05-21 2:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-21 2:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-05-21 3:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-23 19:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2019-05-23 20:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-05-23 20:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-23 20:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-23 20:54 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-05-23 21:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-05-23 21:39 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-05-23 21:50 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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