Raimo Niskanen <raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se> wrote: > When you have two different real world contents the collision probability > is just that; 2^-160 for SHA-1. It is when you deliberately craft a > second content to match a known hash value there may be weaknesses > in cryptographic hash functions, but this is not what rsync nor Git > does, as Marc Espie pointed out in this thread.
You have strings A and B, and you know only that hash(A)=hash(B): what is the probability that A=B? 2^-160? Rodrigo.
