[Voiceglue] Hashing filenames

[Archie Cobbs]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Doug Campbell <voiceglue at campbellcastle.com
> wrote:

> Voiceglue almost certainly doesn't need the cryptographically sound
> MD5 solution with its associated CPU cost.
>
> The issue of collisions is a valid one, though.  My guess is that
> collisions will probably never happen, but I'm still pondering a
> multi-entry-bucket structure just in case they do.
>

With MD5 or SHA1 you will never see accidental collisions.

Collisions do exist but have to be specially engineered, take 2^69 hash
computations, etc.

http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/hash.html

-Archie

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Archie L. Cobbs
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