Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

From: Barry K. Nathan
Date: Tue Apr 12 2005 - 05:03:27 EST


On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:51:39AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:40:21AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Pedro Larroy <piotr@xxxxxxxxxx> told me that...
[snip...]
> (iii) Your argument against comparing with the probability of a hardware
> error does not make sense to me.

I didn't understand it either, at first, but then I read this:

http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/henson/henson_html/node9.html

Whether this is serious enough to actually worry about is another
question...

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx>
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