Subject: doc hash-function-transition: pick SHA-256 as NewHash
>From a security perspective, it seems that SHA-256, BLAKE2, SHA3-256,
K12, and so on are all believed to have similar security properties.
All are good options from a security point of view.
SHA-256 has a number of advantages:
* It
On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 12:20:14AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > Object format
> > ~
> > The content as a byte sequence of a tag, commit, or tree object named
> > -by sha1 and newhash differ because an object named by newhash-name refers
> > to
On Fri, Aug 03 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Sorry for the slow review. I finally got a chance to look this over
> again.
>
> My main nits are about the commit message: I think it still focuses
> too much on the process instead of the usual "knowing what I know now,
> here's the
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:40 AM Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > [...]
> >> - - 20-byte NewHash checksum of all of the above.
> >> + - 20-byte SHA-256 checksum of all of the above.
> >
> > Likewise.
>
> Hmph, I've always assumed since NewHash plan was written that this
> part was not about tamper
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 12:20 AM Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>
> Here I'd want to put a pile of acks, e.g.:
>
> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
> ..
Sure, feel free to add my Ack for this.
Linus
Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Sorry for the slow review. I finally got a chance to look this over
> again.
>
> My main nits are about the commit message: I think it still focuses
> too much on the process instead of the usual "knowing what I know now,
> here's the clearest explanation for why we
Hi again,
Sorry for the slow review. I finally got a chance to look this over
again.
My main nits are about the commit message: I think it still focuses
too much on the process instead of the usual "knowing what I know now,
here's the clearest explanation for why we need this patch" approach.
I
>From a security perspective, it seems that SHA-256, BLAKE2, SHA3-256,
K12, and so on are all believed to have similar security properties.
All are good options from a security point of view.
SHA-256 has a number of advantages:
* It has been around for a while, is widely used, and is supported
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