From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180803052015k6957e809p7c58dfa03545e026@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:15:04 -0700 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: weigelt@metux.de, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] thoughs about venti+fossil In-Reply-To: <20080306040441.GA18329@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080305055255.GA4575@nibiru.local> <7f575fa27b41329b9ae24f40e6e5a3cd@plan9.bell-labs.com> <20080306040441.GA18329@nibiru.local> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6ff780fa-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Well, cracking the lottery jackpot happens quite often (if people > would buy as many lotter tickets as we've got disitinct data > blocks as we have in larger data storages or network traffic > over several years, it would happen very regularily). i think what you fail to take into consideration is the fact, that even if the chance of a collision may be relatively high by your standards, the chance that the colliding blocks have data of any significance is very, very low. i.e., the algorithm for figuring out whether a hash collision will be important to you personally belongs to EXPSPACE, which, we all know, is filled with pr0n anyways. cheerio!