* Stephen Hahn <[email protected]> [2009-03-05 15:33]: > * Tom Mueller (pkg-discuss) <[email protected]> [2009-03-05 22:55]: > > P.S. I've always been curious what will happen when we run into the > > mathematical certainty of having two different file contents that hash to > > the same value. At that time, I certainly hope that the use of hashes is > > not such a core part of the design. > > Even with SHA-1, you and I will be long dead before we have a genuine > collision. I'm not even sure we've collided in the 32 bits of prefix > used in /var/pkg/repo/file yet, and there's 96 bits past that.
Sorry--there are 128 bits past that. SHA-1 is 160 bits. - Stephen -- [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
