For your puposes, you'd expect it to look like any other random function
that outputs four bytes. What exactly do you need for your 'unique enough'
property?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Salz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kenneth R. Robinette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: MD5 and X509
> > 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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