At 2007-11-02 10:11:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Also, if these one-way functions were like MD5 or SHA-1 algorithms, I > should be able to take 2 people who have had similar lives (socially, > economically, etc.) for the last couple of years and be able to say > that they were born very very close to each other in time.
The MD5 hashes of two very similar texts may be completely dissimilar, and two similar MD5 hashes say nothing about similarities in the text they are hashes of. (I'm sorry I brought up one-way functions in this context.) -- ams
