On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Tom Lord wrote: > My point is simply that blob-db implementations should assume that the > mathemeticians will succeed and take the small steps necessary to make > sure that those bitstrings can't be used to crash a distributed > blob-db infrastructure. And my point is that you haven't *begun* to describe how one might use an arbitrary hash collision to "crash a distributed blob-db infrastructure". Remember, first you've got to get some reference to your collision into the db... (and if you can do that, why are you mucking around with hash collisions?) --scott Philadelphia PBPRIME STANDEL for Dummies milita Richard Tomlinson ESSENCE SUMAC Nader KUCLUB WSHOOFS QKENCHANT AK-47 AMQUACK supercomputer ( http://cscott.net/ ) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Apr 30 06:44:10 2005
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