On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:08, guenther wrote: > As md5sum is limited to 128 bits, there are only 2^128 different > fingerprints and therefore feeding 2^128 + 1 different messages will > produce at least 1 fingerprint to be associated with 2 different mails.
Luckily, if you fed it a billion messages every second, it would take about a trillion times the current age of the universe to reach 2^128 messages. :-) _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
