[darcs-devel] [darcs-users] [issue992] short secure version identifiers

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 03:27:37 UTC 2009


Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko at zooko.com> writes:

> On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
>
>> I haven't yet read David Roundy's next followup on the ticket where
>> he suggests another approach.
>
> Oh, good!  David's approach sounds even better because (as I dimly
> understand it), it includes the filesystem state itself as well as
> the patches in the inputs to the hashes.  This should make it roughly
> equivalent to git in security.  (Actually better if it is using
> sha-256 instead of sha-1.)

So should we assign that BTS ticket to you, Zooko? ;-)



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