mei 13, 2016

SHA-1 cracked, are your GIT archives vulnerable to attacks?

Early 2016 it was announced that SHA-1 signatures are now susceptible to collision attacks (source). As GIT uses SHA-1 signatures to uniquely identify objects you might ask yourself if it is still safe to store objects in your GIT code archive. Let’s find out! First, SHA-1 signatures are used in GIT to ensure data integrity and…

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