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Re: approximate string matching - Bloom filters
From: Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:59:19 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mateusz, Sorry it didn't work out, guess I got it backwards! :) -Marty On Sep 1, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Mateusz Berezecki wrote:
On 9/1/06, Fausett, Mark (US SSA) <mark.fausett () baesystems com> wrote:Bloom filters are approximate in a different sense though -- Think of them as space efficient, but lossy token sets; you put a bunch of tokens in, and subsequently can query whether a particular token was placed into the set; to some degree of confidence. Bloom filters are subject to false positives -- they'll sometimes incorrectly tell you that a token is in the set -- but not false negatives. Because hashing functions are used to insert tokens into the bloom filter, the false positives have nothing to do with approximate string matches.By trial end error I already discovered this really unwanted behavior :-/ It's very good for representing what is not in the set rather than representing the set itself. Mateusz _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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- Re: approximate string matching - Bloom filters Fausett, Mark (US SSA) (Sep 01)
- Re: approximate string matching - Bloom filters Mateusz Berezecki (Sep 01)
- Re: approximate string matching - Bloom filters Martin Roesch (Sep 02)
- Re: approximate string matching - Bloom filters Mateusz Berezecki (Sep 01)