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Re: SHA1 collisions became cheaper to create.

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 05:17:01 +0200

On 22.05.2019 01:11, Paul Hammant wrote:
>
>
> Why a merkle tree? One of Subversion's strengths is its linear
> revision history. You could use blockchain and get financial strength
> audit ability.
>
> Blockchain is so over sold. There's a whole class of application where
> the bastard child of Git and Subversion would be a perfect
> non-repudiable and tamper evident store. Ones where distributed
> consensus that's vulnerable to 51% attacks isn't actually needed. 

+1, good one :D
Received on 2019-05-22 05:17:10 CEST

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