A new hash algorithm for Git

Posted Feb 5, 2020 8:26 UTC (Wed) by bluss (guest, #47454)
In reply to: A new hash algorithm for Git by mirabilos
Parent article: A new hash algorithm for Git

> By then, SHA-256 will be broken as well. SHA-2 uses the same underlying structure as SHA-1 and is almost only more secure due to its length

It's true the structure and construction is the same, but SHA-2 is has a bigger state and much more involved mixing steps per round, and those are the biggest difference versus SHA-1, not the digest length.