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This turns out to be wrong; for a 6-member programming team, that probability is about 2⁻²⁴⁵, which is about 2⁸⁵·³ times less likely than an accidental 160-bit SHA-1 collision: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/rpn-edit#3_8_0_1_0_0_0_...

Aside from being bullshit, it's also irrelevant, since we're discussing a collision being generated on purpose, not by accident.

parent kragen 5 years ago

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