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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)"  <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Sun,  7 Feb 2010 13:57:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] In case anyone worries about block hash collision in
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>> Seems to me you should be worried about both.
>
> let's not get carried away.  the odds of accidental
> collision are 1 2^80.

And being worried about both leads to the choice of SHA-1 as a suitable
algorithm. If we weren't worried about it I'm sure some bright light would
have picked ROT-13 for performance reasons.