On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:19 AM, sqweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Silent network error? Going to be difficult to notice, but once you > do a retransmit will fix it (or if things are really bad, a
You notice network errors in ways that are itself probabilistic. Bits can change in ways the CRC doesn't notice. The same with disks. And cosmic rays hitting your processor... Some of this probabilities are higher (or comparable) than the probability of the sha-1 colliding. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat
