Adam Olsen wrote:
The chance of *accidentally* producing a collision, although
technically possible, is so extraordinarily rare that it's completely
overshadowed by the risk of a hardware or software failure producing
an incorrect result.
Not when you're using them to compare lots of files.
Trust me. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Using hash functions to tell whether or not files are identical is an
error waiting to happen.
But please, do so if it makes you feel happy, you'll just eventually get
an incorrect result and not know it.
n
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