On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Doug Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:voiceglue@campbellcastle.com">voiceglue@campbellcastle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Voiceglue almost certainly doesn't need the cryptographically sound<br>
MD5 solution with its associated CPU cost.<br>
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The issue of collisions is a valid one, though. My guess is that<br>
collisions will probably never happen, but I'm still pondering a<br>
multi-entry-bucket structure just in case they do.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>With MD5 or SHA1 you will never see accidental collisions.<br><br>Collisions do exist but have to be specially engineered, take 2^69 hash computations, etc.<br><br><a href="http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/hash.html">http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/hash.html</a><br>
<br>-Archie<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Archie L. Cobbs<br><br>