Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format

Re:Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchica... by boxfire on Friday November 19, 2021 @11:59PM (#29285692)

MD5 is a 128 bit random number no one would ever have thought would collide. 64 bits is peanuts especially when message types are being defined dynamically

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Re:Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchica... by NavinF on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:20AM (#29285793)

Dude that’s why I said “unintentional collisions”.

Of course you can get intentional collisions. The security model here assumes that anyone that wants to know your message’s ID can just ask.

Did you know that the Internet Protocol uses a 4-bit header to specify the format (v4 or v6) of the rest of the message? They should have used 128 bits. What a bunch of fools.

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Re:Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchica... by remram on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:09AM (#29285742)

MD5 is safe against unintentional collisions.

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