31 Jan
2008
31 Jan
'08
5:24 p.m.
Hello Peter, Thursday, January 31, 2008, 8:01:36 PM, you wrote:
files with different content generating the same hash)... My intuition told me that the odds of two cryptographic hashes (on meaningful content) colliding was much less than the earth being destroyed by an asteroid... But this is just intuition... What does computer science tell us about this?
you may be interested to know that widely used rsync algorithms relies on 128-bit hashes and its author speculated about its reliability: http://samba.org/~tridge/phd_thesis.pdf -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com