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It bothers me too when people reverse "in theory" and "in practice", which are really quite different things! Clearly in this case he actually meant "in practic
by jsharpe 15y ago
It bothers me too when people reverse "in theory" and "in practice", which are really quite different things! Clearly in this case he actually meant "in practice".
- Dylan16807 15y agoI disagree. The theory is not that collisions don't exist. The (probabilistic) theory is that you will never find one. In practice hash functions tend to have flaws that are discovered over time, ruining this theory.