Subject: Re: Problem merging

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:35:13 +0100

Ben Clifford wrote:
> hmm... pigeon-hole principle is just that there exists two files that  
> have the same SHA-1 as each other... doesn't say anything about *all*  
> SHA-1s, though?
> 

It doesn't have to say that explicitly. It's universally applicable to 
all static-size checksum algorithms given an infinite amount of inputs.

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