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		ianopolous on March 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alterna... So you use hardened sha1 in radicle? It would be great to see this in the docs.

cloudhead on March 5, 2024 [–]

Everything that is replicated on the network is stored as a Git object, using the libgit2[0] library. This library uses hardened SHA-1 internally, which is called sha1dc (for "detect collision"). Will add to the docs, good idea!

[0]: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/ac0f2245510f6c75db1b...

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