I wrote to the list. If you have something to say about the thema, then please to the list. Your impolite mails are not welcome in my mailbox.
Rodrigo. Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > On Sep 17 13:21:04, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > > Raimo Niskanen <raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se> wrote: > > > > > When you have two different real world contents the collision probability > > > is just that; 2^-160 for SHA-1. It is when you deliberately craft a > > > second content to match a known hash value there may be weaknesses > > > in cryptographic hash functions, but this is not what rsync nor Git > > > does, as Marc Espie pointed out in this thread. > > > > You have strings A and B, and you know only that hash(A)=hash(B): what > > is the probability that A=B? 2^-160? > > No. The probability that A!= B is 2^-160. > > However, this is irrelevant to the "problem" you are describing. > Please don't enbarass yourself any further and take this silly > "issue" somewhere else; preferably to your English teacher.
