Re: SHA1 collisions proven possisble

[valdis.kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 09:26:28 -0800, Richard Hesse said:
> Git prefixes blobs with its own data. You're not going to break git with a
> SHA-1 binary collision. However, svn is very vulnerable to breaking.

And here's the proof-of-concept for svn breakage.  Somebody managed to
make the WebKit svn totally lose its mind by uploading the two PoC PDFs....

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/watershed-sha1-collision-just-broke-the-webkit-repository-others-may-follow/

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