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Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible
From: Dorn Hetzel <dorn () hetzel org>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:31:50 -0400
MD5 compression is lossy in this context. Given big enough files you're going to start seeing hash collisions. Actually, for a n-bit hash, I can guarantee to find collisions in the
universe of files just n+1 bits in size :)
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