On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:30:46PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Footnote *1*: SHA-256, as all hash functions whose output is essentially > the entire internal state, are susceptible to a so-called "length > extension attack", where the hash of a secret+message can be used to > generate the hash of secret+message+piggyback without knowing the secret. > This is not the case for Git: only visible data are hashed. The type of > attacks Git has to worry about is very different from the length extension > attacks, and it is highly unlikely that that weakness of SHA-256 leads to, > say, a collision attack.
What do the experts think or SHA512/256, which completely removes the concerns over length extension attack? (which I'd argue is better than sweeping them under the carpet) Mike
