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2026-07-08 The Hacker News

GitHub 'Verified' Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures

New research shows that a signed Git commit's hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the signing key can mint a s...

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