Samuel Thibault, le Wed 28 Jun 2006 15:34:12 +0200, a écrit : > A typical disk MTBF is of the order of a million hours. Considering > 40Mo/s speed, reading 4Ko takes roughly 1/10,000th second. As a result, > you have a rough read error probability of 1/36,000,000,000,000.
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 02 Jul 2006 18:25:15 +0200, a écrit : > And actually, why using md5sum? There is no security issue at stake > here, and a mere 128-bits crc checksum would be much faster and have > just the same collision probability. Even a 64-bits crc would have a sufficient collision probability of 1/16,000,000,000,000,000,000 Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
