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Subject: Re: hash collisions

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:38:46 07/10/02

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On July 10, 2002 at 03:19:38, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On July 09, 2002 at 17:59:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Seems that the search is far more resistant to such errors than anybody has
>>thought previously.
>
>'I told you so!'
>
>Many times, even. Each time you all get off and scare someone who uses
>32-bit hashing to death. Hah!
>
>--
>GCP


Just because things have gone "well" in the testing so far, doesn't mean
a hash error won't break something, somewhere.  64 bit hash signatures are
cheap enough to be worthwhile insurance...

• Re: hash collisions Gian-Carlo Pascutto 09:43:23 07/10/02
• Re: hash collisions Georg v. Zimmermann 09:09:05 07/10/02
  • Re: hash collisions Robert Hyatt 11:04:45 07/10/02
    • Re: hash collisions Georg v. Zimmermann 11:31:14 07/10/02
      • Re: hash collisions Robert Hyatt 19:02:53 07/10/02

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