In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick Useldinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shouldn't you add the additional comparison time that has to be done > after hash calculation? Hashes do not give 100% guarantee. When I've been talking about hashes, I've been assuming very strong cryptographic hashes, good enough that you can trust equal results to really be equal without having to verify by a comparison. -- David Eppstein Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
