Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264015AbTH1NDj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:03:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264021AbTH1NDj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:03:39 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:5511 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264015AbTH1NDi (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:03:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:03:26 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa Cc: David Schwartz , Timo Sirainen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Lockless file reading Message-ID: <20030828130326.GF6800@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <1062061038.1459.240.camel@hurina> <20030828124404.GA11988@linalco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030828124404.GA11988@linalco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 593 Lines: 16 Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > It can happen. It happened to me with two gifs. FWIW. Probability on the order of 2^-32 with MD5 any-pairs collision. (It's not usual to have so many GIFs to compare, though :) SHA is better, and both probably have some weakness that increases the probability of collision. Do you still have the GIFs? -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/