> On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > some thoughts about venti that go around in my mind: > > > > 1. how stable is the keying ? sha-1 has only 160 bits, while > > data blocks may be up to 56k long. so, the mapping is only > > unique into one direction (not one-to-one). how can we be > > *really sure*, that - even on very large storages (TB or > > even PB) - data to each key is alway (one-to-one) unique ? > > http://www.nmt.edu/~val/review/hash/index.html > > Not that this analysis is without flaws, though.
have you invented the 9fans.net effect? this link may or may not be similar. but it is on point: http://www.valhenson.org/review/hash.pdf do you care to elaborate on the flaws of this analysis? - erik
