← Back to context Comment by surfaceofthesun 6 days ago What's the benefit of using sha256 for a repository? 1 comment surfaceofthesun Reply kpcyrd 1 day ago Security, sha1 was deprecated in 2011 by NIST due to security concerns, and browsers reject sha1 certificates as invalid since 2017.Yet programmers in 2026 for some reason are still using it when signing their git tags and commits. Unless they are using a sha256 git repository.
kpcyrd 1 day ago Security, sha1 was deprecated in 2011 by NIST due to security concerns, and browsers reject sha1 certificates as invalid since 2017.Yet programmers in 2026 for some reason are still using it when signing their git tags and commits. Unless they are using a sha256 git repository.
Security, sha1 was deprecated in 2011 by NIST due to security concerns, and browsers reject sha1 certificates as invalid since 2017.
Yet programmers in 2026 for some reason are still using it when signing their git tags and commits. Unless they are using a sha256 git repository.