At 23:15 30/06/00, Conor Daly wrote:
>I was thinking about checksumming for really big files but I don't think
>I'll need it here. I've got a total of about 17,000 unique lines of about
><100 bytes each for a total of about 1.5Mb of unique data. Should fint into
>32Mb RAM with 64Mb swap ok...
>>I got the impression somewhere that the World would END before any two
>unique files / strings would produce the same hash from MD5 :-)
You need to stick the word "probably" in there, there are least two 21
letter plain old ascii strings that give the same hash under MD5. But as
Terry Pratchett says, if the odds are a million to one it'll happen 9 out
10 times ;-),
Fergal
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