Donald Stufft <donald.stufft <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Why is it worse? SHA1 isn't terribly broken AFAIK. > > Because you lower the available entropy, "birthday paradox".
How so? Collisions are highly unlikely on a non-broken 160-bit hash function. I don't understand how the birthday paradox is a practical problem. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
