Surely two files with the same hash was always a posibility, not matter what 
the hash function is?

Barry

> On 24 Feb 2017, at 16:55, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Someone may want to jump in here:
> 
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725093
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
>> On Feb 24, 2017, at 5:51 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 09:02:28PM +0100, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
>>> Earlier today, the first known SHA1 collision was presented:
>>> 
>>>  
>>> https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html
>>>  http://shattered.io/
>>> 
>>> It turns out that adding these two PDF files to a svn repository makes 
>>> it impossible to checkout the repository properly if both files exist in 
>>> the repo. This script demonstrates what happens:
>> 
>> As a workaround, disable rep-sharing and the error goes away.
>> 
>> [[[
>> #!/bin/sh
>> 
>> if test -e repo -o -e wc1 -o -e wc2; then
>>  echo repo, wc1 or wc2 already exist >&2
>>  exit 1
>> fi
>> svnadmin create repo
>> sed -i -e 's/# enable-rep-sharing = true/enable-rep-sharing = false/' 
>> repo/db/fsfs.conf
>> svn co file://$(pwd)/repo wc1
>> cd wc1
>> wget https://shattered.it/static/shattered-1.pdf
>> wget https://shattered.it/static/shattered-2.pdf
>> svn add *.pdf
>> svn ci -m "Add files with identical SHA1"
>> cd ..
>> svn co file://$(pwd)/repo wc2
>> ]]]
>> 
>> A  (bin)  shattered-1.pdf
>> A  (bin)  shattered-2.pdf            
>> Adding  (bin)  shattered-1.pdf            
>> Adding  (bin)  shattered-2.pdf 
>> Transmitting file data ..done         
>> Committing transaction...                            
>> Committed revision 1.
>> A    wc2/shattered-1.pdf
>> A    wc2/shattered-2.pdf                           
>> Checked out revision 1. 

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