Seth ∞ Dillingham
MD5 is weird. Almost infinitesimally small chance of collision, but infinite number of collisions per hash. Maybe infinity is what's weird.
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@mjtsai Yep. MD5 may give us enough pigeon holes to encircle our solar system, but there's an infinite input space. Still weird. :-)
Michael Tsai
@sethdill Yep. So error-detection, Git, ZFS, etc. are broken for an infinite number of inputs…
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@mjtsai (and yet, in almost all cases, an infinite number of potential collisions is actually good enough) -
@mjtsai Right. Exactly what I was thinking about.
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