[140801] 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 (Andrew Mulholland)
Thu May 19 10:19:55 2011
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikvgTR+tUN4WTtc1e8HudoAro=mRg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 15:19:48 +0100
From: Andrew Mulholland <andy-nanog@bash.sh>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
only problem is that of hash collision then.
