Reply to post: Re: A question on hashing

This storage startup dedupes what to do what? How?

Trevor_Pott Gold badge

Re: A question on hashing

IANACE (I Am Not A Crypto Expert), so don't take this as the final word, but if I recall correctly hash collisions are a theoretical possibility with all hashing algorithms. It simply becomes a question of the size of the hash space as to how likely those collisions are.

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