On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Jeff Breidenbach j...@jab.org wrote:
Is 4 bytes too short?
Four characters is only about a million combinations. First collision
is 50% likely at 1200 messages, and multi-million message databases
are completely screwed.
If we're willing to impose
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 06:20:18PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
Thanks for posting this Pierre-Yves!
On Apr 23, 2012, at 08:17 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
archive-core (store the emails and expose them through an API) --
archivers/stats/NNTP
The questions are then:
- how do we store
Thanks!
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Jeff Breidenbach j...@jab.org wrote:
0. Assume a 10 million message archive.
1. What percentage of permalinks need another click?
2. What percentage of permalinks will result in a list of more than 10
matches?
Ignoring cross posts, for a 4 character
I apologize, the simulation code had a flaw. I'm embarrassed that I
didn't immediately recognize this immediately from intuition. We
could get even more accurate results by computing actual SHA-1 of
actual message-ids, but I'm not sure it is worth the effort. Here is a
revised program and the
