Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > > >From a checksum I expect two things: (1) the pre-images of elements > > in the range have all similar sizes, > Why ? This makes no sense, and is in contradiction with (2).
I must correct my previous mail. The Domain is numerable, to speak about cardinality as size do not help, but perhaps you get the idea. The probability of colisions is stronly dependent on how the hash distributes the elements of the domain in the range. Rodrigo.