In message <mailman.3934.1239821812.11746.python-l...@python.org>, Nigel Rantor wrote:
> Adam Olsen wrote: > >> The chance of *accidentally* producing a collision, although >> technically possible, is so extraordinarily rare that it's completely >> overshadowed by the risk of a hardware or software failure producing >> an incorrect result. > > Not when you're using them to compare lots of files. > > Trust me. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Not with any cryptographically-strong hash, you haven't. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list