[140753] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX))
Wed May 18 17:20:26 2011
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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 14:03:53 -0700
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> no no no.. it's simply, since the OP posited a math solution, md5.
> ship the size of file + hash, compute file on the other side. All
> files can be moved anywhere regardless of the size of the file in a
> single packet.
MD5 compression is lossy in this context. Given big enough files
you're going to start seeing hash collisions.
