Re:You Don't Need UUID
by kiitos on Thursday September 14, 2023 @04:14PM
(#37514246)
There have been so many incidents in crypto that exploited broken assumptions about hash collisions.
Factually, X != hash(X). Sometimes you can make the simplifying assumption that X == hash(X), but only in well-defined contexts, subject to proper risk analysis; never in general, or as a presumption of a system that needs to be correct.
Factually, X != hash(X). Sometimes you can make the simplifying assumption that X == hash(X), but only in well-defined contexts, subject to proper risk analysis; never in general, or as a presumption of a system that needs to be correct.