On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:57:46PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > I wonder if this is an implementation detail leaking through into the > UI, though. Under what conditions, except for Noam’s contrived example > with hardcoded dates, is there a useful distinction between “hash” — > implying a number that you could reliably recompute given all the input > data — and “random number”?
The SHA1 hash is just a deterministic random number for this purpose. Making it deterministic just means that the identifier can also double as checksum. Joerg _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
