On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:02:50 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > - rather than "zillions" of them, there are few enough of them that > the chances of an MD5 collision is insignificant;
> (Any MD5 collision is going to play havoc with your strategy of > using hashes as a proxy for the real string.) > - and you can arrange matters so that you never need to MD5 hash a > string twice. Hmmm... I'll use the MD5 hashes of the strings as a key, and the strinsgs as the value (to detect MD5 collisions) ... (But I'm sure that Steven was just waiting for someone to take that bait...) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list