{"id":8781,"date":"2026-07-08T12:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/github-verified-commits-can-be-rewritten-into-new-hashes-without-breaking-signatures\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:12:01","slug":"github-verified-commits-can-be-rewritten-into-new-hashes-without-breaking-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/github-verified-commits-can-be-rewritten-into-new-hashes-without-breaking-signatures\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub &#8216;Verified&#8217; Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bNew research shows that a signed Git commit&#8217;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 second commit with the same files, author, and date, and a valid signature, GitHub still stamps &#8220;Verified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everything a reviewer would check matches. The commit&#8217;s hash does not. That matters\u00a0New research shows that a signed Git commit&#8217;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 second commit with the same files, author, and date, and a valid signature, GitHub still stamps &#8220;Verified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everything a reviewer would check matches. The commit&#8217;s hash does not. That matters\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bNew research shows that a signed Git commit&#8217;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 second commit with the same files, author, and date, and a valid signature, GitHub still stamps &#8220;Verified.&#8221; Everything a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/github-verified-commits-can-be-rewritten-into-new-hashes-without-breaking-signatures\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GitHub &#8216;Verified&#8217; Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}