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by paco_sinbad 2366 days ago
What about hash collision? You could write an obfuscator to keep appending useless code or comments to the payload to continually generate commit hashes until you get a collision with the same original hash. A lot of work of course, and the hash is so f-ing huge it might take a few thousand compute-years, but you know, hackers find a way. If nothing else, use the full 40-char hash to ensure that your attacker has to find the same atom twice across 10 moons.