On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 05:18:16PM -0500, Nico Williams wrote: > > I wonder if A/V shouldn't use something similar? > > The rsync rolling CRC is useful for detecting insertions an deletions > -- i.e., remote diff.
Right, but right now some anti-virus does hashes over the whole file, or so I've heard, and so even a single bit flip in a resource (icon) can defeat some of them. What'd be nicer is fuzzier matches --- perhaps. > A function with > that property isn't a hash function. How do you figure? -- http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ I don't believe in luck. I believe in the law of large numbers. If you are a spammer, please email j...@subspacefield.org to get blacklisted.
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