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@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ very wealthy attackers. But we're well past the time when it seemed ok that git
uses SHA1. If this gets improved into a chosen-prefix collision
attack, git will start to be rather insecure.
Projects that store binary files in git, that might be worth $100k for an
attacker to backdoor **should** be concerned by the SHA1 collisions.
A good example of such a project is
<git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git>.
Using git-annex (with a suitable backend like SHA256) and signed commits
together is a good way to secure such repositories.
git-annex's SHA1 backend is already documented as only being
"for those who want a checksum but are not concerned about
security", so no changes needed here.