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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> As long as the Gnus algorithm provides enough entropy, message IDs
> generated by Gnus will not cause collisions.

Can you expand on this a bit further?  In particular, is it feasible
to arrive at the sufficient amount of entropy with the LHS only?