From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <8D987F97-4760-4243-A9E7-F2F3BA9C63E3@bitblocks.com> <20170226194618.E3E5F124AEA5@mail.bitblocks.com> <7F0C4A3F-0EC1-437B-BE8C-9BC97BE651E9@westryn.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:30:48 +0000 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c124ff44d78ad0549874788 Subject: Re: [9fans] SHA-1 collision and venti Topicbox-Message-UUID: b5dbe5b0-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --94eb2c124ff44d78ad0549874788 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 27 February 2017 at 17:28, Bakul Shah wrote: > My argument is that an archival system that can't store some files, no > matter how they were generated, is not good enough. A hash collision > researcher may have a legitimate reason to store such files. > that's a separate argument that venti would never work for you, regardless of the hash algorithm used. --94eb2c124ff44d78ad0549874788 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 27 February 2017 at 17:28, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
My argument is that an a= rchival system that can't store some files, no matter how they were gen= erated, is not good enough.=C2=A0 A hash collision researcher may have a le= gitimate reason to store such files.

t= hat's a separate argument that venti would never work for you, regardle= ss of the hash algorithm used.
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