Re: Lockless file reading

[Jamie Lokier]

Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <200308281726.SAA24033@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> > I'd be really surprised if there were that many pictures in the world.
> 
> Well, this is about probabilty. It does not mean that you need 2^64
> pictures, neighter does it mean you have a collision within 2^64 pictures.

It just means that if you have a collision with many fewer pictures
than that, it's such an unlikely event that a flaw in the program
calculating the hash, or a flaw in the hash algorithm itself, is more
likely than it being a random collision.

-- Jamie

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