Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263625AbTH1Rff (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:35:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263617AbTH1Rfd (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:35:33 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:20103 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263587AbTH1Rfb (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:35:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:35:22 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: root@mauve.demon.co.uk Cc: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa , David Schwartz , Timo Sirainen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Lockless file reading Message-ID: <20030828173522.GA8581@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030828130326.GF6800@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <200308281726.SAA24033@mauve.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308281726.SAA24033@mauve.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 20 root@mauve.demon.co.uk wrote: > > Probability on the order of 2^-32 with MD5 any-pairs collision. > MD5 is 128 bit output, so that's around 2^64 pairs before you have a birthday. Right. Dozy me :) > > Do you still have the GIFs? > > There arn't that many GIFs in the world. > I'd be really surprised if there were that many pictures in the world. I'd be really surprised if what you saw wasn't a software error, misreporting or miscalculating the MD5. -- 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/