RE: Lockless file reading

[David Schwartz]

> 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


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