Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

Posted Apr 19, 2005 1:55 UTC (Tue) by bfitz (guest, #4844)
Parent article: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

Straw man argument. Yes, sure, hash collision. All the air molecules in this room might zip over to the other side and I could die of suffocation. I'm not worrying about that either, because even though it theoretically could happen, the probability of it happening is pretty damn low. I don't need to go around wearing a breathing mask for fear of Brownian motion taking my oxygen away, and I don't need to worry about SHA-1 hash collisions in entries in the repository.