Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

[Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>]

At 05:10 PM 30/08/2004, Scott Call wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> > I recall even seeing posts about people claiming this meant original data 
> > being reconstructed from the checksum!  That would be truly amazing since 
> > I could reconstruct a 680MB ISO from just 
> > 61d38fad42b4037970338636b5e72e5a. Wow!
>
> Technically, using an Infinate Monkeys approach, you could rebuild the ISO 
> by generating the expentially huge quantity of all possible data and check 
> them and find the one that matches the ISO.

Reminds me of Wyle E. Coyote.  Instead of getting a damn shotgun and just 
shooting the road runner, he gets the ACME MD5 hash-collision-o-tron to 
concoct some possible but improbable scheme involving RR'....

        ---Mike