Re: [SLUG] Are md5sums errors frequent?

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2006 - 17:52:46 EDT


> An md5sum has what, 32 hex digits? That's 128 bits, so there can only be
> 2^32 (about 4.3 billion) different md5sums. So the odds of two different
> files having the same md5sum is 1/(2^32).

I think your math is a little off here.. :D

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