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> Allowing collisions breaks the immutability requirement, which impacts security in many important cases. All hashes have collisions. There are no cryptograph
by Aloisius 12y ago
> Allowing collisions breaks the immutability requirement, which impacts security in many important cases.
All hashes have collisions. There are no cryptographic hashes that can promise zero collisions.
- timmclean 12y agoOf course; I was speaking informally. "allowing collisions" == "allowing it to be feasible to find a collision"