On 2014-05-28, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:02:50 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> - rather than "zillions" of them, there are few enough of them that >> the chances of an MD5 collision is insignificant; > >> (Any MD5 collision is going to play havoc with your strategy of >> using hashes as a proxy for the real string.) > >> - and you can arrange matters so that you never need to MD5 hash a >> string twice. > > Hmmm... I'll use the MD5 hashes of the strings as a key, and the > strinsgs as the value (to detect MD5 collisions) ...
Hey, I'm not *that* stupid. -- In the 1970s, people began receiving utility bills for -£999,999,996.32 and it became harder to sustain the myth of the infallible electronic brain. (Verity Stob) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
