On 27.8.2010, at 2.52, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> Won't files hashed with the old function begin to dupe though? >> >> You mean new hash would become a duplicate of the old? Well .. >> >> 1) It's highly unlikely to happen, especially because with the new >> hash function there again shouldn't be a way to create any specific >> hash. > > Oh, no, that's not what I meant. > > I mean, my friend sends me a video of two cats cuddling, and it gets MD5 > hashed and stored somewhere (it's the first instance of that file in my SIS). > Tomorrow, I read the newspaper from 2005 explaining how MD5 is broken, and > decide to switch my hash function to MD4 for safety reasons. A week later, > another friend sends me the same video (it's REALLY cute). Doesn't the video > get stored again?
Oh. Yeah, it gets duplicated once. I don't think that's a big deal.
