https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16583


Wolfram Schmied <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Wolfram Schmied <[email protected]>  2009-11-27 
00:39:22 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> It appears that the check, as currently coded, will have 
> a false positive rate of slightly over 1 in 4096 files, 
> assuming a random distribution of octets

16 bits, not 12, and you have to multiply by 1024, which gives us a false
positive rate for random files on the order of 2^-6 ~= 1.7 %. That was
corroborated by a little experiment I did. I measured 1.8 % for a set of
metadata-free PNGs created by resizing 1498 JPEGs from my photo collection to
160x120 and converting to PNG.

The very low rate seen by [email protected] (comment #11) was apparently the
result of large metadata headers. The original JPEG photos I used in my sample
all have decidely non-random headers of ~8k.


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