<story><title>Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/898522/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tkone</author><text>Simple answer: github was doing most of this work as SHA1 is a non-allowed hash type for FIPS compliance, which mattered since Microsoft had landed the US DoD JEDI contract.&lt;p&gt;The JEDI contract was cancelled a in 2021 so the work never continued on that workstream.&lt;p&gt;source: former github developer</text></comment>
<story><title>Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/898522/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leipert</author><text>Previously discussed with hundreds of comments: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=31851755&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=31851755&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>