The latest version of Linus Torvalds' Git version-control system brings experimental support for the SHA-256 cryptographic hash, moving it away from its reliance on the less safe SHA-1. Google and ...
The use of git has grown over the years and the company GitHub alone hosts more than 50 million repositories. Torvalds said given the nature of the SHA-1 attack that had been outlined, it was easy to ...
The ramifications of the recent SHA-1 collision attack have extended to Git and the Apache Subversion repository, both of which rely on the outdated and vulnerable hashing algorithm. When researchers ...
It should be no surprise that running untrusted code in a GitHub Actions workflow can have unintended consequences. It’s a killer feature, to automatically run through a code test suite whenever a ...
With Meson, a new build system can be used in Git 2.48 that offers a simple syntax and is available for many IDEs. In version 2.48, the version management system Git introduces Meson, a new build ...
No one considers the 20-year-old SHA-1 hash function secure, and browser makers are well on the way to phasing it out. But until yesterday's revelation by researchers at Google and CWI Amsterdam, ...