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beagle3 on Nov 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git's initial commit

According to the Wikipedia entry[0], "No actual collisions have yet been produced", github or otherwise. The NSA might have produced them, but publicly non have been found, and it's not for lack of trying.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1

CUViper on Nov 24, 2014 | [–]

I take that statement to imply "on purpose", or as part of an attack. You can't know whether there's a coincidental collision anywhere in github unless you bother to look. But I do understand that it's still extremely improbable.

hyp0 on Nov 24, 2014 | [–]

In a thousand years, a git sha-1 collision is going to cause a lot of trouble.

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