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The article does address that:

"Given the threat that the SHA-1 hash poses, one might think that there would be a stronger incentive for somebody to support this work. But, as Bjarmason continued, that incentive is not actually all that strong. The project adopted the SHA-1DC variant of SHA-1 for the 2.13 release in 2017, which makes the project more robust against the known SHA-1 collision attacks, so there does not appear to be any sort of imminent threat of this type of attack against Git. Even if creating a collision were feasible for an attacker, Bjarmason pointed out, that is only the first step in the development of a successful attack. Finding a collision of any type is hard; finding one that is still working code, that has the functionality the attacker is after, and that looks reasonable to both humans and compilers is quite a bit harder — if it is possible at all."

parent blakesterz 4 years ago

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