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If this were true, then wouldn't MD5 have been the better choice?

Also, SHA-1's preimage resistance (which still isn't broken) is necessary for the security of signed commits, regardless of the hash function used for the signature itself, since a commit object references its tree and predecessor commit by their SHA-1 hashes.



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