On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:11:50AM -0700, Thaths wrote: > Also, if these one-way functions were like MD5 or SHA-1 algorithms, I > should be able to take 2 people who have had similar lives (socially, > economically, etc.) for the last couple of years and be able to say > that they were born very very close to each other in time. It may be > that these one-way functions are not very good at avoiding clashes.
That's not how crypto hashes work. Do a single bit mutation on input, and see for yourself. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
