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From: Joel Salomon <salomo3@cooper.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] compare-by-hash
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:45:35 -0400
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> I assume you think Venti does compare-by-hash, but it doesn't.

Actually, I was responding to the unanswered question of a month ago -
how concerned do we need to be about hash collisions? Answer: not very.
Even at the petabyte and exabyte levels, these would be vanishingly unlikely.

(BTW, are there 'standard' prefixes for higher ranges than exa- ? *Very*
important to be able to say when SHA-1 will start having problems :-)

--Joel