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bluesign on June 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256

maybe some naive question but why not hash content with SHA256 then hash the result with SHA1?

umvi on June 20, 2020 [–]

That's like saying "why not choose a 20 character password and just use the first 8 characters of it?"

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