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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
