On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:24:11 -0800 Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Using current known techniques. A random collision is just as bad > > news. > > And, just to clarify, your concern would extend to any digest based > comparison? Or are you specifically concerned about sha1? Wouldn't this issue just go away if the code simply compared the full pages, rather than skipping the hashed 128 bytes at the beginning? Given the cost of this whole operation (which, it seems, can involve copying one of the pages before testing for equality), skipping the comparison of 128 bytes seems like a bit of a premature optimization. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
