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Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

  • From: Crist Clark
  • Date: Mon Aug 30 17:51:29 2004 
Scott Call wrote:


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:
I recall even seeing posts about people claiming this meant original data being reconstructed from the checksum! That would be truly amazing since I could reconstruct a 680MB ISO from just 61d38fad42b4037970338636b5e72e5a. Wow!

Technically, using an Infinate Monkeys approach, you could rebuild the ISO by generating the expentially huge quantity of all possible data and check them and find the one that matches the ISO.

Not practical but possible.
Not possible. There are, theoretically, many 680 MB ISOs that have that
hash. That you produce _a_ 680 MB ISO that has that hash does not
mean that you have _the_ particular 680 MB ISO that produced it.
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