Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:02:33 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Lockless file reading |
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Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <200308281726.SAA24033@mauve.demon.co.uk> you wrote: > > I'd be really surprised if there were that many pictures in the world. > > Well, this is about probabilty. It does not mean that you need 2^64 > pictures, neighter does it mean you have a collision within 2^64 pictures.
It just means that if you have a collision with many fewer pictures than that, it's such an unlikely event that a flaw in the program calculating the hash, or a flaw in the hash algorithm itself, is more likely than it being a random collision.
-- Jamie
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