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Re: Files with identical SHA1 breaks the repo

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:58:36 +0100

On 24.02.2017 14:52, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote on Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:59:16 +0100:
>> On 24.02.2017 12:28, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>> Branko Čibej wrote on Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:18:05 +0100:
>>>> This is precisely why rep-sharing is disabled by default when the
>>>> repository is created.
>>> It's _enabled_ by default:
>> *WHAT*
>>
>> Since when?
> Since rep-sharing was first released (= 1.6.0).
>
>> I see now that the default fsfs.conf says the same thing, but this is crazy.

I'm pretty sure we should switch the default to off, and not just
because SHA1 has been cracked. Our promise has always been data
integrity: content indexing that does not use the whole text as key
degrades that promise.

-- Brane
Received on 2017-02-24 14:58:40 CET

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