From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UMa4s-000195-42 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:26:54 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.217.180 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.217.180; envelope-from=melvincarvalho@gmail.com; helo=mail-lb0-f180.google.com; Received: from mail-lb0-f180.google.com ([209.85.217.180]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1UMa4m-0007Jq-Fu for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:26:54 +0000 Received: by mail-lb0-f180.google.com with SMTP id t11so1721512lbi.39 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:26:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.87.243 with SMTP id bb19mr5222330lab.12.1364804801665; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.143.38 with HTTP; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 01:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:26:41 +0200 Message-ID: From: Melvin Carvalho To: Bitcoin Dev Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c3537a641fec04d94861ac X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (melvincarvalho[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1UMa4m-0007Jq-Fu Subject: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoin pull requests X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:26:54 -0000 --001a11c3537a641fec04d94861ac Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I was just looking at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4571.0 I'm just curious if there is a possible attack vector here based on the fact that git uses the relatively week SHA1 Could a seemingly innocuous pull request generate another file with a backdoor/nonce combination that slips under the radar? Apologies if this has come up before ... --001a11c3537a641fec04d94861ac Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I'm just curious if there is a p= ossible attack vector here based on the fact that git uses the relatively w= eek SHA1

Could a seemingly innocuous pull request generate another file wi= th a backdoor/nonce combination that slips under the radar?

Ap= ologies if this has come up before ...
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