[Server-devel] Apache proxy CRCsync & mozilla gsoc project?

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Toby Collett <thjc at plan9.net.nz> wrote:
> We are only using 30 bit hashes, so even if it was a perfect hash it is
> possible you could get a collision. Having said that our collision space is
> only the single web request, so should reduce chances of error.

IIRC, if rsync thinks there was a collision on the weak hash, it rolls
again through the file with the weak hash and a different seed.

Maybe we could include a differently seeded fingerprint?

Is that what you were thinking?

cheers,



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