27 Aug
2010
27 Aug
'10
5 a.m.
On 27.8.2010, at 2.52, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Won't files hashed with the old function begin to dupe though?
You mean new hash would become a duplicate of the old? Well ..
- It's highly unlikely to happen, especially because with the new hash function there again shouldn't be a way to create any specific hash.
Oh, no, that's not what I meant.
I mean, my friend sends me a video of two cats cuddling, and it gets MD5 hashed and stored somewhere (it's the first instance of that file in my SIS). Tomorrow, I read the newspaper from 2005 explaining how MD5 is broken, and decide to switch my hash function to MD4 for safety reasons. A week later, another friend sends me the same video (it's REALLY cute). Doesn't the video get stored again?
Oh. Yeah, it gets duplicated once. I don't think that's a big deal.