SHA-1 and changeset signatures

Goffredo Baroncelli kreijack at libero.it
Sat Aug 27 02:59:39 CDT 2005


On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:52, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:13, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > But it does in fact prove me wrong. I would not expect the average
> > person to look at the contents of a .ps file, or even to become
> > suspicious if they saw binary junk in there they didn't understand.
> 
> The same is for _code_ that contains binary data...

No, this is not true, because the code usually doesn't contain binary data :-)
Sometime the fingers are more fast than the mind...

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