> Apparently Eric Young
> concluded that the first four bytes of the resulting signature of a cert
> subject was unique enough to create lookup indexes. I was just
> wondering what kind of trouble you could get into with this
> conclusion.
The worst case, of course, is needless hash-chain collisions.
I don't think anyone has profiling data that shows this to be anywhere
near worrying about, in terms of effciency.
/r$
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