Re: Lockless file reading
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Date: 08/28/03
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To: jamie@shareable.org (Jamie Lokier) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:10:05 +0100 (BST)
>
> root@mauve.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > > Probability on the order of 2^-32 with MD5 any-pairs collision.
> > MD5 is 128 bit output, so that's around 2^64 pairs before you have a birthday.
>
> Right. Dozy me :)
>
> > > Do you still have the GIFs?
> >
> > There arn't that many GIFs in the world.
> > I'd be really surprised if there were that many pictures in the world.
>
> I'd be really surprised if what you saw wasn't a software error,
> misreporting or miscalculating the MD5.
Or perhaps more likely, truncating the hash to 32 bits, in which case for most
people there won't be a problem, as a collision isn't likely until you get
to tens of thousands of images.
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