On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:25:58PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Raimo Niskanen <raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se> wrote: > > > A resembling application is the Git version control system that is > > based on the assumption that all content blobs can be uniquely > > decribed by their 128-bit SHA1 hash value. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ... 160-bit SHA1 hash...
And now I just read on the Wikipedia page for SHA-1 that a theoretical weakness was discovered in 2011 that can find a collision with a complexity of 2^61, which gives a probability of 10^-18 still 1000 times better than a hard drive of 10^-15. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
