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"Secure" is a time-constrained term. But any hash, whatsoever, has collisions, so if collisions are unacceptable, your VCS can't use them. (The point being tha
by bandrami 10y ago
"Secure" is a time-constrained term. But any hash, whatsoever, has collisions, so if collisions are unacceptable, your VCS can't use them.
(The point being that a VCS should handle collisions gracefully no matter what has is used.)
- lmm 10y agoNo VCS is 100% secure against the possibility of catastrophic failure. If an asteroid wiped out all life on earth there is no VCS that can handle that gracefully. So as long as a hash collision is less likely than that, using a hash and not handling collisions gracefully doesn't make the VCS substantially less safe.