Re: Lockless file reading

[Jamie Lokier]

root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
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