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Re:SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collision (2020) by kragen on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:10AM (#28851142)
0 is not a probability; trying to use it as one leads to division-by-zero errors.
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Re:SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collision (2020) by cortesoft on Thursday October 14, 2021 @11:14AM (#28865443)
How do you represent the probability of an impossible thing, then?
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Re:SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collision (2020) by kragen on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:36PM (#28866534)
You could always be wrong about it being impossible. People do make mistakes sometimes.
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