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| From: | Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@p...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Computing with big numbers? |
On 4 déc. 08, at 17:06, Florian Hars wrote: > Alan Schmitt schrieb: >> But I don't think this applies here, as the hashes I'm >> looking at are the one used by Unison to identify file contents. > > Then it is *especially* relevant, as it is quite trivial to generate > several files with different content and the same MD5 hash, all you > need is a Playstation 3: > http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/Nostradamus/ Thanks for the link, but I wasn't considering a malicious attack: if someone were able to modify my files, I would not worry about Unison not detecting (thus not propagating) a malicious change. Alan