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From:
Brent Dax
Date:
September 30, 2002 16:27
Subject:
RE: Collections
Message ID:
008301c268da$e74911c0$6501a8c0@deepblue
'Brian Ingerson':
# then you call the internal HASH (storable->md5 or
I have one more concern. I don't know the details of MD5, so I don't
know how remote this possibility is, but what if two different data
structures MD5 out the same? Like I said, I don't know much about MD5,
but it would seem to me that any time you reduce a ton of arbitrary
strings to thirty-two hexits, you'll get a collision at least once or
twice.
--Brent Dax <brentdax@cpan.org>
@roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)
Wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in
New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. And radio operates
exactly the same way. The only difference is that there is no cat.
--Albert Einstein (explaining radio)
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