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Git fscked by SHA-1 collision? Not so fast, says Linus Torvalds

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Re: Common sense approach

That's a binary blob in the kernel, but the source file in git is in ASCII. It uses 18 distinct ASCII characters, by the looks of it. I don't know whether the published method for creating SHA-1 collisions could be modified to generate hexadecimal characters that could be hidden in a file like that. Does anyone know the answer?

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