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Hash snag: Security shamans shame SHA-1 standard, confirm crucial collisions citing circa $45k chip cost

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Other Problems

Git doesn't use SHA-1 for a defence against attackers, it uses it as a database key for each file.

If an attacker can rewrite files in your git repo, even if going to the trouble of duplicating a hash, you definitely have Other Problems.

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