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Although most of the comments here have to do with legality, I am more concerned with the technical aspect. The prosecutors say they know that he has porn becau
by bawana 10y ago
Although most of the comments here have to do with legality, I am more concerned with the technical aspect. The prosecutors say they know that he has porn because the hash values they obtained are identical to the hash values of porn images.
Are hash collisions not a consideration?
Can hash values be as incriminating as direct evidence?
Is it possible to take a hash of a benign image (kitten?) and encrypt it with an algorithm that gives a result which is identical to an unencrypted hash value of a pornographic image?
- DanBC 10y ago> Are hash collisions not a consideration? His defence team would be hopelessly incompetent if they didn't mention that if it was a realistic possibility.
- xeonoex 10y agoI'm wondering how they obtained the hashes. You can't hash images on an encrypted drive. How are they able to obtain a hash of an image without actually having the image? Were the hash values from what he has downloaded stored somewhere?