Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261796AbVDKN6q (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:58:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261797AbVDKN6q (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:58:46 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([209.128.68.125]:27070 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261796AbVDKN6l (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:58:41 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: more git updates.. Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:58:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, which We do not fancy Message-ID: References: <20050410065307.GC13853@64m.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1113227900 3208 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2005 13:58:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:58:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 876 Lines: 22 Followup to: <20050410065307.GC13853@64m.dyndns.org> By author: Christopher Li In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > There is one problem though. How about the SHA1 hash collision? > Even the chance is very remote, you don't want to lose some data do due > to "software" error. I think it is OK that no handle that > case right now. On the other hand, it will be nice to detect that > and give out a big error message if it really happens. > If you're actually worried about it, it'd be better to just use a different hash, like one of the SHA-2's (probably a better choice anyway), instead of SHA-1. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/