Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264225AbTH1UiW (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:38:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264224AbTH1UiW (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:38:22 -0400 Received: from mail.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.131]:22400 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264292AbTH1Uhq (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:37:46 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Ragnar Hojland Espinosa" Cc: Subject: RE: Lockless file reading Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:37:42 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030828124404.GA11988@linalco.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 27 > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:56:29AM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > No two data sets with the same MD5 hash are known. It will > > be many, many > > years before anyone finds two data sets of the same size with > > the same MD5 > > hash. The odds of having two data sets just happen to have the > > same MD5 has > > are infinitesimal. > It can happen. It happened to me with two gifs. FWIW. Find those GIFs, double-check, and publish immediately. That would be amazingly big news and would probably cause huge numbers of people to switch from MD5 to SHA1 overnight. Far more likely, you are mistaken. DS - 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/